Travel and the Human Heart

You know that dizzying feeling you sometimes get when you're traveling? That "this morning I was in New York, tonight I am in Moscow" feeling? The one that makes you feel like if you shook your head quickly it would make that great cartoon noise? Yeah, that one.

Well, I was thinking yesterday that it's that way with new people too. Like last month I never knew this person existed and now..cartoon noise again.

And I was also thinking that no matter how sweet, no matter how fleeting, as Northline shows us (egad, another Vlautin namecheck!) every human encounter, no matter how brief, has an impact. And that, I think, is very cool.