“It never ever goes away,” Slean says of that sense of wonderment. “People just sort of tune it out. I think that’s why I tend to wrench myself out of my comfort zone and go to Paris, or go to a cabin in the woods, or whatever, so that I can hear it again. It’s always in there, but sometimes life gets really noisy around you and you get lazy and you can’t hear it. By jumping out of the rhythm that you’re in and going elsewhere into utter ignorance, you can hear it again.”
And that’s kind of why I’m now in Fredericton, New Brunswick.
(btw … I’m negotiating a house right now. Hopefully I’ll know today or tomorrow whether I’ll get it or not.)
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