I love your photos and descriptions of Maine. I spent weekends there growing up. Our family would drive up to Bridgeport, stay on a lake, and all eight of us could run wild without a care in the world. That sense of freedom, space, light, and water remain true to who I am today.
Thank you taking us to your inner address! I got to visit Maine a few times and I could imagine each scene you described. Thank you for the window swap resource! What a way to help people reconnect to a “global sense of place” if they are not feeling it where they are.
In Dubai: a place where I feel more at ease is when I walk in my childhood neighborhood by the Dubai Creek away from the “glitz” most people know about the city or when I spot old unassuming small homes scattered between large villas in Jumeirah in Dubai. I also like any quiet beach I can spot but they are dwindling unfortunately as the city is commercializing more and more public spaces and getting more crowded.
In Boston (used to live there for a decade and try to visit time to time): any hidden green spaces that most people don’t know about. Also Olmstead park and parts of the arboretum that feel more like a jungle than the more tidy parts of it
Thank you so much for sharing the places that you feel the most yourself around the world, Reema! I'm so glad that what I wrote brought you back to your inner scenes of Maine, too. Enjoy window swap and thank you for reading.
I love your photos and descriptions of Maine. I spent weekends there growing up. Our family would drive up to Bridgeport, stay on a lake, and all eight of us could run wild without a care in the world. That sense of freedom, space, light, and water remain true to who I am today.
Thank you taking us to your inner address! I got to visit Maine a few times and I could imagine each scene you described. Thank you for the window swap resource! What a way to help people reconnect to a “global sense of place” if they are not feeling it where they are.
In Dubai: a place where I feel more at ease is when I walk in my childhood neighborhood by the Dubai Creek away from the “glitz” most people know about the city or when I spot old unassuming small homes scattered between large villas in Jumeirah in Dubai. I also like any quiet beach I can spot but they are dwindling unfortunately as the city is commercializing more and more public spaces and getting more crowded.
In Boston (used to live there for a decade and try to visit time to time): any hidden green spaces that most people don’t know about. Also Olmstead park and parts of the arboretum that feel more like a jungle than the more tidy parts of it
Thank you so much for sharing the places that you feel the most yourself around the world, Reema! I'm so glad that what I wrote brought you back to your inner scenes of Maine, too. Enjoy window swap and thank you for reading.
Thanks so much, Emma.
Beautiful!
What a beautiful, restorative, also energizing place. No wonder you return each year.
Thanks so much, Dawn! Just writing about it took me to that good place inside.