A rainy day with quotes to ponder...

A house is made of walls and beams; a home is built with love and dreams.

- Dr. William Arthur Ward

The other day my daughter asked me this very question. What is the difference between a house and a home? I think the above quote says it best. And really, we've experienced the concept ourselves. Not to say that once in a while she or I may have the desire to just "nest". But let's face it, you can nest anywhere. The love and cohesion of your family is all you really need.

We travel light. Clothes, shoes, toiletries, books, instruments, beads, cooler, laptops and that is it. Our stuff just fits in our car and on top. When we arrive, we unpack and dwell in our new already furnished habitat. We get to know our new surroundings and adapt to our new culture, whether it's here or in another country.

Every place we go, it is all about adapting. Change, which really is what adapting is all about, isn't necesarily easy. But once conquered, becomes a blast to experience.

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear. So many look to eradicate fear from their lives, when that is an impossible task. You can certainly experience moments in absence of fear, however accept that fear will be with you whenever you are in the process of living creatively. The challenge is to go ahead regardless, simply notice the feeling and manage being courageous.

-Mark Twain

I guess you could just say we have been living creatively the last 7 years of our lives. Taking the plunge to sell our house that we had spent 2 years of our lives creating in order to live on a boat, was a tad creative. Selling all the stuff we spent years accumulating was really, just liberating. Saying to ourselves that we don't need to earn more money to buy more stuff and that we have enough earned money to live a reasonable life took some courage.

And so why even bring all this up? Well, this blog is about going beyond our borders both personal and physical. It's about sharing the good and the bad as we transcend our borders. And, it's for those of you who are considering making a change, conquering those what if (fear) questions, and looking at life with a whole new perspective. Also, it's for me to contemplate where we've been and where we are headed next in our lives as the adventure continues.