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Travel Edition
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Romanian Travelogue
Transylvania, Romania
COMING NEXT FRIDAY!
COMING
MAY 22
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Quito, Ecuador
Meeting the Family
MAY 15st
COMING MAY 29
COMING JUNE 5
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On Being a Two-Way Tourist
At last, our eyes open. We are sur-rounded by the unfamiliar. Looking down a far-away mountain, a land-scape imprints on us, drawing quest-ions in our minds: Who am I? Who do I want to be? What does it mean to be human? We look at the world and re-cognize an unwrit-ten future that lies in our hands. We are home.
Back in daily life, the world feels odd and unreal. The flat looks like it always has.
The little café around the corner feels lifeless. The inner city is shack-led by large food and clothing chains. Where are the red and golden market stalls with their co-lorful offerings? We long for the un-touched, the real. (Even Schmalk Sea-son 2 cannot still our longing.)
We try to take in-spiration from how we look at the world when we tra-vel: with an open eye and sharpened senses.
But maybe what’s interesting can only be found far away because only there we can tell that it is interesting. We are left to wonder: Where is our place in the world?
There, far away, we had a true desire to experience and un-derstand. But we cannot appreciate our everyday life just the same by default. We must learn to become tourists in our own lives. We must open our eyes to the beauty and unique-ness around us.
For the first time in years, we walk up the mountain be-hind our house. Looking down, we see just how much we haven’t seen. The shape of the village, the city, the landscape, the roads we walk ev-ery day. We look onto our future, our real future!
Schmalk Season 3 is dedicated to travel. Not only the travels that take us far away but also those that lead us up the mountain be-hind the house.
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