feeling a little disconnected from my various american cities and homes. i’m reading us travel blogs and the american sections of atlas obscura (some vicarious pleasure at seeing other people delighting in places that i’ve loved) and making a list of cambridge/boston places for cindy (who is leaving in 2 weeks for an mpp at ksg) but sometimes i get even more homesick for america. i wish it were the kind of journey i could make with regularity, not long trips, you understand, just the kind of short trip you take to take the pulse of your home cities, just for a week, twice a year, or just two weeks every year.

some interesting things going on in cambridge in june:

a.r.t. does the tempest: with teller magic ta von)

secret gardens of cambridge: i’ve always wanted to go on this tour when i was living in cambridge, that, and virginia garden week, but the times were always wrong.