"Thoughtful Traveling" ~ March 20, 2016
Channel: Stan McGahey
Date: 2016-04-06

URL: https://youtu.be/yjOEkJnqW2k

Hello Again Thoughtful Travelers!  Welcome to today’s thought for March 20, 2016. 

It’s by by Dr. Maya Angelou, the American poet, author, educator, and actress.  She lived from 1928 to 2014.

“Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.”

So what are your thoughts on today’s quote? Here’s mine:

“Fear of the unknown, including other people, creates barriers, and we do our best to keep them in place to protect ourselves.  But this is mostly nonsense.  Sure, some people and cultures don’t fit well into our sense of the world.  But those same type of people exist, in one form or another, in our own society.  Have you ever known somebody for a long time, but really didn’t know much about them, and when you did, you became good friends?  Me too!  Did that make you feel stupid?  Yeah, me too!  So remember that on your next trip.  Keep your antenna up, but look for the good in other people too, and it will enrich your travels.”

Now…here’s the list of all the sources quoted in March.  I hope you’ll stop by each day to enjoy all the interesting and insightful things they have to say.  And leave a comment.  I’d like to hear your thoughts too.  Thanks, and see you tomorrow!

March 1-31, 2016 (entries listed by date and source):
01 Anais Nin
02 Aldous Huxley
03 Margaret Mead
04 Mark Twain
05 Mason Cooley
06 Arnold Bennet
07 Confucius
08 Kenneth Grahame
09 Clive Jones
10 (Unknown)
11 Douglas Adams
12 Jack Kerouac
13 Sir Walter Scott
14 Jack London
15 (Roman Expression)
16 Walt Disney
17 George Bernard Shaw
18  William Bartram
19 Robert Jenkins
20 John B. Priestly
21 William Shakespeare
22 Thomas Haynes Bayly
23 Pubilius Syrus
24 Dr. Maya Angelou
25 Arthur Schopenhauer
26 Mario Batali
27 Pope John Paul II
28 Benjamin Franklin
29 Samuel Johnson
30 Reverend Purlie V. Judson
31 Antoine de Saint Exupery

Presented by Dr. Stan McGahey.  Want to learn how the tourism industry works?  View my free series of short, narrated PPTs on a variety of important topics, entitled “Demystifying Tourism” on YouTube.