It’s always a good idea to make an escape à deux especially for a pair who needs a quiet time alone and away from the mundane or quotidian and slip into something more comfortable — at destinations made just for two. Hence the paradoxical title of Gosetti-Ferencei’s book The Ecstatic Quotidian, which means “stepping outside of an everyday familiarity.” A philosophical inquiry in which Gosetti-Ferencei argued that the ordinary can only be got hold of via the phenomenon of the extraordinary, and vice-versa. From moonlit walks through atmospheric Mozambique island to a sun-soaked sparse foot traffic island of the Seychelles — with many areas having barely been visited, to candlelit dinners in Marrakesh and lazy lie-ins in sultry island of Zanzibar, it’s time to cast off the quotidian.   1. Enter a romantic paradise in the Seychelles. There are romantic vacations, and then there’s the Seychelles. The tropical paradise[…]
Our perspectives are shaped by our experiences good or bad. Travel is perspective shifting and helps restore perspective on where we stand in the world and what matters and what doesn’t. “This ability to see our own lives from such a radically different perspective is one of the greatest gifts that travel can give us,” argued Alan de Botton. It is the feeling we get when an experience rewards us with some clarity on something that has always been there but only this time our awareness of it becomes more surreal as if we got a new set of eyes — a moment of awe, the connection of a dot or better yet feeling of the sublime. As defined by Edmund Burke, On the Sublime, 1756 ed. J. T. Bolton, “Sublime experiences, whether in nature or in art, inspire awe and reverence, and an emotional understanding that transcends rational thought and[…]
Libraries are a treasure trove of stories, history, and a collection of books that you will not find anywhere else and a perfect embodiment of the importance of books in our lives and why reading matters. Many of them look fabulous and loom over their surrounding locations, as if to say, “This is what really matters.” They are also the perfect juxtaposition of the old books with the new and the combination form the best perfume and a sensation that you may not find anywhere else. If you are crazy enough you can travel to Dubai and visit the perfume man who creates the perfume smell of the things we love. Wouldn’t that be an experience in and itself even though it sounds wildly crazy? If you have ever visited a library on a  warm summer’s day then you may encountered a book that you have never seen or[…]
When asked where he came from, Socrates answered, not ‘From Athens’ but ‘From the World.’ The Art of Travel by Alain de Botton is a wittily crafted book drawing on the theories and bons mots of writers, explorers, philosophers, and artists. It’s like a simple guidebook about how to travel well and become better travelers. De Botton illustrated the two types of travelers those that see the world with awe and wonder, those who travel to expand their perspectives of the world, and those who pay keen attention to details, details our world has to offer, be it nature, animals, scenery,  architecture, how the sun sets and rises in different places of the world – the marvelous beauty of our planet and all its organisms. Those who ask vigorously, questions are motivated by being in search of an authentic representation of experiences. And then there are the pessimistic types[…]
In celebration of Juneteenth, a day that is also commemorated as a second independence day we want to highlight a little-known book that served as a travel guide for so many. On June 19, 1865, nearly two years after President Abraham Lincoln emancipated enslaved Africans in America, Union troops arrived in Galveston Bay, Texas to ensure that all enslaved people be freed. More than 250,000 African Americans embraced freedom by executive decree in what became known as Juneteenth or Freedom Day. Juneteenth honors the end of slavery in the United States and is considered the longest-running African American holiday. On June 17, 2021, it officially became a federal holiday. Although it has long been celebrated in the African American community, this monumental event remains largely unknown to most Americans. The Emancipation Proclamation issued by President Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863, established that all enslaved people in Confederate states in rebellion against the Union[…]

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