My life as a traveling teacher.

WHOA, friends. Your response to my blog post last week has left me profoundly grateful and awestruck. You have turned something that could have been deeply isolating into something exceedingly positive with your warm words and kind thoughts & actions. In opening up about my experience with depression, you have shown support in the most varied and beautiful ways. Your thoughtfulness and consideration reminded me of the words of an author that were presented to me at a very opportune time. Whilst in Abu Dhabi, CBC podcasts became my homesickness-relief mainstay. I remember being particularly drawn to an episode from The Current that featured Sebastian Junger – a former war-time journalist and author of The Perfect Storm . In his latest book, Tribe , he theorized that as humans, we had not yet evolved to adapt to modern-society’s departure from a more tribal and communal way of life. We live in a time that sees independence and going-it-alone as a sign of strength, in a societ