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Maranie's avatar

As always, thank you, Alice. I too grew up outdoors and largely without a television (select PBS shows were permitted if and when chores were completed). My childhood memories are of being outdoors and of existing in a kind of utopia that now feels distant from the youth of today. I'm grateful for those years and cling to them amidst an inundation of noise and distraction.

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Alice L Driver's avatar

I know that feeling has made my relationship with social media complicated. I think part of my love of travel is being immersed in experience not mitigated by online life.

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Rich Dafter's avatar

We love your "strange" Alice and we love you.

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Alice L Driver's avatar

Thank you!

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M. Layfield's avatar

If only more of your breed were walking this earth. Your eyes will forever be open to the strangeness you find, never polluted by the so-called standards that some expect. You’ll bump into the corners, tear a shirtsleeve now and then, but forever come up fresh in a world that needs reminding, "Not everything in life is as expected.” ...

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Alice L Driver's avatar

Now that I'm back in Oark where I grew up (working on a project), I've returned to a rural area where the internet hardly works and there is no cell phone reception. I think people forget how rural American can sometimes be another universe.

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