At Home in China | 207
Simple
Tsh Oxenreider
4.3 • 879 Ratings
🗓️ 9 August 2019
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
A few years ago, Tsh and her family spent a school year traveling around the world in one direction, living out of backpacks. It was life-changing for all five of them, and what travel taught Tsh about home that year is the theme of her travel memoir, At Home in the World: Reflections on Belonging While Wandering the Globe.
In this episode, Tsh shares the audiobook chapter from when they were in China, just beginning their adventure and everything, inside and out, was upside-down.
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| 0:00.0 | This is simple. I'm Tishauchsen writer. |
| 0:07.0 | Hey friends, I'm officially back from my month-long sabbatical and it's really good to be back. It really is. My family and I had a fantastic road trip up to the Pacific Northwest. I had a really good time before that |
| 0:23.8 | leading literary London once more and overall my break was sorely needed and |
| 0:29.2 | very very much valued and appreciated. I savored it every bit and to be honest it has been a little |
| 0:35.5 | weird to come back into work this week but it's also been really good and my time away |
| 0:40.4 | made me appreciate all the more the work I get to do here writing and talking with you and you know |
| 0:47.1 | it's largely thanks to the community of patrons who keep this work going so thank you guys |
| 0:51.5 | especially and if you have it yet you can join them and just head to the link in the show notes here |
| 0:57.1 | Well I'll share more about what I learned about taking sabbaticals as well as my own personal takeaways after a month |
| 1:04.5 | completely offline in the upcoming episodes back with my regular co-host. |
| 1:08.8 | But in the meantime I have got one more special episode for you here. This is a chapter from my |
| 1:15.2 | audio book version of my book A Home in the World, Reflections on Belonging |
| 1:19.2 | while Wandering the Globe. That was a travel memoir I wrote with Thomas Nelson an imprint of |
| 1:25.2 | Harper Collins and it's about the school year my family and I spent living out of |
| 1:28.8 | backpacks and traveling around the world in one direction. |
| 1:32.5 | Our kids were nine, six, and four when this started. |
| 1:35.7 | And all in all, we visited 30 countries |
| 1:38.2 | and that school year changed our lives forever. |
| 1:41.8 | So in this episode, I am sharing with you chapter 2, which is about |
| 1:45.8 | China. This is the very first country we visited after leaving the state so |
| 1:50.6 | this is also where I wrote about my overall feelings of the year ahead and what it was like to start the trip. The thought that traveled through my head most of this near month while we were in China was, what the ever-living heck are we doing? |
| 2:05.4 | It's true. It was really insane. So enjoy this chapter from at home in the world and |
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