Sterling Terrell

recovering economist

Shared Passion

Shared Passion

What shared passion can you develop with your children?

I guess it could be anything, right?

Golf, cooking, reading, concerts, singing, in this case.

Honestly, I need to think on this…

My gut reaction is tennis and entrepreneurship.

But here I am adding the image to this post, and I think travel might be one too.

I lasted for two and a half years on the bus with my father until, feeling the constraint a young girl feels in the constant presence of a parent, I moved to London. But an important part of my heart and soul was given form and expression on that bus, and I came to realize how a shared passion forges deep bonds between people, defining a family more deeply than blood connection alone could do.

– Rosanne Cash, Composed (Amazon)

In Europe The First Time

In Europe The First Time

I was in Europe the first time the day I was born.

Charmed, I know, but I was only there a very short time.

Unfairly, my parents had already been in German for four years by the time I arrived.

And – a season before that – they had lived in Spain for four years too.

See we flew through Europe ever summer during all those years in Saudi Arabia, but I didn’t get to really see the place until I was 13.

Mostly we flew through Frankfort or Paris, but one random time we ended up in Rome.

I got caught and corrected by security trying to touch Italian soil while we refuled on the tarmac.

Most of it is a blur now but I can recall more it if I sit and ponder. Pictures help too.

And funny, I’m helping my middle with an Anne Frank book report right now too.

Understand: Travel changes you.

When I was sixteen, he took Kathy and Rosey and me to Europe with him, my first trip abroad. We visited Anne Frank’s house in Amsterdam, which made an indelible imprint. I found I was more a natural traveler than anything else, and that trip began a lifelong series of sojourns to Europe, and more generally a life circumscribed by travel.

– Rosanne Cash, Composed (Amazon)

Sterling Terrell