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Bulletin™
WHAT I REALLY KNOW
About Favorite Vacations
By Kathy Megyeri, Washington, D.C.
One doesn’t have to trudge around the world trying
desperately to pack 13 countries into nine days. What vacations really mean to me now is treasuring some free time to
reflect on what’s become most valuable in my life. I live in
Washington, D.C., and on the best vacation I ever took—in my
own backyard—I tucked my journal under my arm and visited
places that spoke to me about what it is to be an American
and what experiences define a nation and its people.
Now, I reread quotations and remarks from my journal
and reflect on the places where
such people are remembered.
For example, Clara Barton’s
quote, displayed at her home in
Glen Echo, Md., reads, “If I can’t
be a soldier, I’ll help soldiers.”
Or from Helen Keller, whose
ashes are buried at the Wash-
ington National Cathedral: “Life
is either a daring adventure or
nothing. To keep our faces to-
ward change and behave like
free spirits in the presence of
fate is strength undefeatable.”
I recorded the words of Anne
Frank at the Holocaust Memorial Museum. She wrote in
her diary, “Every day I feel myself maturing, I feel liberation
drawing near, I feel the beauty of nature and the goodness
of people around me. Every day I think, what a fascinating
and amusing adventure this is! With all that, why should
I despair?”
“Vacations” can occur in one’s own city, in one’s own sur-
roundings, with one’s family—or even alone. Their purpose is
to see the ordinary from a different perspective. My journal
holds words that still make me laugh or cry and reflect on
life, like the quotation from Barbara Bush in the first ladies
exhibit at the Smithsonian: “Someday, someone will follow
in my footsteps and preside over the White House as the
President’s spouse. And I wish him well.”
National Cathedral:
surprises discovered at
familiar landmarks.
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