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Free association is a word game in which it's impossible to plan ahead. Each step leads directly from the one before it, and can even surprise the player, arising as it does from somewhere deeper and quicker than reason.

The way I am choosing to live my life right now is one step at a time. This is a conscious choice. It's an experiment. It's an exercise. It's a creative adventure.

This blog is really for me. The idea is to record the steps as they happen, like a sportscaster or real-time news, rather than smoothing them out in retrospect. I'm going to smooth out the most recent few steps and then begin recording as I go. At least, that's what I think I'm going to do. I can never be sure.

Thursday, June 20, 2013

Prologue

This is how I would have given my personal geographical history up until about 2 months ago.

I was born in New York state.
I grew up in Connecticut.
I backpacked around Europe.
I went to college in Massachusetts.
I studied my junior year in Kyoto, Japan.
I fell in love and moved to Portland, Oregon.
I trained as an English teacher and went off to Korea.
I went to Indonesia to teach, but I got ill and needed a rest.
I returned to New York and Connecticut.
I recovered my stamina and moved to Mexico for 5 months.
I moved to Poland where I had a friend and stayed for a year.
I tried out Portugal and Morocco before heading to Argentina.
I fell in love with Argentina and decided I was staying forever.
And there I lived happily ever after.  The end!

Then, after 7 months, I suddenly realized Argentina was not the end of my travels.
I had a plane ticket (round trip, back to Buenos Aires) to attend a friend's wedding in France. 
A few weeks before leaving I decided I was not in fact coming back to Argentina.
After a brief visit home to New York, I flew to Paris, having no clue what I'd do after the wedding.
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