Quote of the Week - Knowledge via Travel
This weeks quote is from The Commoner: A Novel by John Burnham Schwartz that is loosely based on the experiences of the current empress of Japan as the first commoner to marry into the Japanese royal family. The book is a bit of a page turner and there are a lot of things mentioned in the book that I am eager to learn more about. Here is the quote:
“…your travels must be agreeing with you, broadening your mind and your sense of the world. this is all to the good. Such knowledge can’t merely be borrowed after the fact; it must be seen with one’s own eyes at the actual moment.”
As I sit in Japan and experience all that there is to see and do I know that it is altering my views on the world and my little place in it. I am finding that I am still in awe of Japan but also that some of my views have changed quite a bit since I was here 10 years ago.
