‘There ain't no journey what don't change you some.’ — David Mitchell
Sometimes a change is as good as a rest. March has been a month of changes, of traveling. Traveling back home.
We set off from Auckland, New Zealand, at the beginning of the month, after a year of our Kiwi adventure. Since then, we’ve traveled literally across the world, making some stops along the way to spend some days with friends on remote islands, visit other friends in new destinations, revisit known places, and even see some kangaroos along the journey.
Reading has been challenging during the last month, but it has also been good to pause and reflect, to have the time to experience the journey, and to engage in meaningful conversations — with friends, with my partner, with myself.
However, I did manage to purchase a couple of books on our road trip in Australia, which I am currently reading and flicking through. I found them at Sydney’s Art Gallery of New South Wales — a fantastic building with a great art collection, featuring both modern and aboriginal artworks.
It’s fascinating how some books find us at specific, key moments in time. Philip Hughes / Notebooks was a great find, and a beautiful book that accompanied me along the journey during our road trip around Australia. A book filled with beautiful sketches, precisely about trips and travels.
As Ursula K. Le Guin says, ‘it is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.’ Our journey showed us a new way of seeing, it made us grow and change, in a way (there ain't no journey what don't change you some.)
The journey keeps going, though: a new chapter awaits us back in London. And I couldn’t be more excited to be back here. Back home. Traveling opens up the mindset, discovery fills the soul. But there is nothing like settling back into the places we know and love. Where our family and old friends are. Where we root deeply and routinely.
Expect to see more of London (again) in this newsletter from now on!
‘There’s nowhere else like London. Nothing at all, anywhere.’ — Vivienne Westwood
Happy reading! 📚✨
Ana
📚 What I’m reading in March 2024:
Tradition Today. Indigenous Art in Australia, published by the Art Gallery of NSW.
Philip Hughes / Notebooks, published by Thames&Hudson.