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Far From Home Is Where the Heart Is

Travels Looking at Mt. Fuji, by Kitagawa Utamaro (1753-1806)

t doesn’t take advanced technology to prove that we live relatively circumscribed lives. Like tiny planets, we process along a certain orbit, from home, the office, the grocery store, the kids’ school, and back home again, except for the occasional vacation. But thanks to the numerous Twitter users

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