I\u2019m back.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s hard to know what to say.<\/p>\n
In some respects it is as though I\u2019d never left: the smell of my office, the people on campus, my wonderful housemates. My twenty days in Spain came and went so quickly, far too quickly. Eventually I\u2019ll post something of a travel log, but for now there are some selected photos<\/a>. Now I need to hit the ground running \u2013 class changes to address, notes to prepare, enrollment numbers leaping (from 120 to 158 now), my own studies to commence, and still I haven\u2019t fully unpacked from my move across town a month ago. And yet so much of me is still in Spain with Ana\u2026<\/p>\n
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<\/a>Of course my worries are quaint; I have no need for food, I needn\u2019t fear war or other violence around me. I live in relative peace and security, for which I am grateful. And such it is for most of us: if you have the luxury of reading a blog you are almost surely amongst the wealthiest 10% of the world\u2019s population\u2026 All this is just to say that we always need perspective when worrying about our future or our current problems. And then we need to turn our worries into action (thereby overcoming them), or simply let them go.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7907151-115645981997599479?l=americanbuddhist.blogspot.com\")
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