At grandpa’s house, when you want onion rings with your hamburger, you start by walking out to the garden and pulling one from the ground.
The best kind of vacation – the best kind of break – is one that reminds you of the clarifying power of elemental, fundamental things.
The adventure of a road trip, even one you’ve taken many times before; visits with friends and family, in the care of their welcoming hands; grandparents and their rich histories, familiar and distant all at once; eating what has most recently been growing in the garden (and frying it to a perfect golden brown!); and being out of your element just enough to notice how easily being in your element has become.
