Away From It All - Utter Rotation

Getting away is new territory for little ones and a superfluous snare for older ones.

The brilliance of getting away from it all. To experience new inventions, new places, foods and people. Not always a time of complete refreshment but something different nonetheless.

With kids everything is new and there isn’t the realization that the parents really need (and simply want) some time away from it all.

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They view it on a macro level (“why is it taking so long to get there?”; “the water in the river is really deep!”); while we grasp the little things (“do you taste honey in this beer?”; “did we really just spend that much on dinner?”).

  

Going away and coming back is too often like the tides and the moon and not often enough like the seasons and Earth’s ellipse around the sun.