The wealth disparities in Cusco are glaring, and a ten-minute cab ride from the glossy city center filled with spas and US-priced-restaurants reveals neighborhoods of mud brick houses, dirt roads and garbage heaps. And, it so happens that life for me straddles these two polar-opposite realities. Tho[...]
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Happiness is: New Experiences and Unpredictability in a Foreign Country
“Maybe we mistakenly think we want ‘happiness’, which we tend to picture in very vague, soft-focus terms, when what we really crave is the harder-edged intensity of experience.” I read this in a New York Times article two days before leaving the States for my yearlong stint in Cusco. Nine mo[...]
