Word 010
Walk the paths of Nara and you hear the world — English, Portuguese, a dozen other languages drifting through the morning air.
Watching the travellers pass, a memory surfaced from thirty years ago, on the other side of the world.
Thirty years ago, during a short study abroad in the United States, I met a man from Brazil — retired, and there to learn.
I was moved. By the simple desire to keep learning, no matter the age.
Now I am nearing the age he was then.
And I feel it too — how fortunate I am to still be learning here, in this life.
My journey of learning will continue for as long as I live.
Learning knows no age, no border. Perhaps travel and learning have always been the same thing.