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Posts by Monna McDiarmid

Monna McDiarmid writes about travel and gracious living for expats at http://MonnaMcDiarmid.com  She works as an international school counselor in Yokohama, Japan and helps teenagers with their big life stuff.  Japan is the sixth country she has called home.

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Live Every Day Like You Travel: 4 Lessons from the Road

“Our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world as being able to remake ourselves.” ~ Gandhi

What if we lived the way we travel?

It’s been my experience that we let go of many things when we travel. I’d like to propose that those things—the things we loosen our grip on while travelling—are things that don’t need to be held quite so firmly.

1. Notice. Slow down. Reflect.

San Miguel de Allende is one of my favorite places on earth. I’ve visited nine or ten times. If asked to describe heaven, I’d say that it …