August 2009
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July 2009
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MOVED!
Our new home: www.dsplaced.com
June 2009
6 posts
Sorry for the interruption. We are in the process of moving to a new site. Will be up shortly.
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“(When talking about Paris) I like my town, but I can’t say exactly what I like...”
– Georges Perec
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Excerpted
I’ve been thinking about places recently, and have wondered why all of the towns I’ve lived in still haunt me sometimes. Even though I’m more happy in New York than I remember being anywhere else. It can feel silly. While I was in Richmond last weekend, I felt little pricks of nostalgia every time I saw something that was a regular part of my life there: the rocks I used to walk...
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On making a new family, away from home
Nietzsche said, “Love is more afraid of change than destruction”. The love for a city, a place, a pigeon hole is so terrified of change. And the logistics is only least of the problems. It takes quite some time to fall in love with the place you’ve moved in. And once you are firmly settled in the comfort zone, it is difficult to come out of it. But then as they say, change is...
May 2009
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Life is indeed elsewhere
While I’m not returning directly to the American city I lived in previous to my venture in Southeast Asia, I am returning to the country. I’ve been in Southeast Asia for 8 months, and I admit that I’m growing weary of Asia. I’m becoming tired of my inability to discuss concepts other than “Where is the bathroom?” “Do you have vegetarian food?” ...
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Time isn't half confusing
By BritinLA, British born, moved to California writes about musings on the resulting culture shock of moving to America from Britain.
In addition to my problems with dates, I have just discovered that time is also a cause of confusion. 9:30 is always spoken as “nine thirty”, using the common UK expression of “half past nine”, or “half nine”, leads to blank looks or worse missed meetings. I told...
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Why I haven't returned back to Israel.
For those who left your country, do you ever consider returning back? Why or why not?
I was born in Israel and lived there until I was six. To answer your question about why i dont move back to Israel — There’s just more opportunity here, and at this point I am more American than Israeli, but I think in the future I will move there because I want my mom to go back there. As...
April 2009
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A place where love found me
Home to me is 2 places -Mumbai the place where I was born, spent my childhood and teenage years and learnt to love. As they say in Hindi -my Maika and Princeton,New Jersey is the place where I was married off to and the place where love found me-my sasuraal. Love both these cities and cannot live without either. MayaMumbai-Princeton
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“Maybe that’s all family really is. A group of people who miss the same imaginary...”
– Garden State (via thebackdoor) (via quote-book) (via oh-yes)
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homesick
oh-yes:
This warm weather is making me miss Spain so much. I always miss Spain, and I drive everyone up the wall with how often I mention it, but I can’t help it. When you grow up in two different places, you’re in a constant state of homesickness - you can never fully be “home”, no matter where you are. It’s like there’s always a piece of you missing. It’s so hard to be an ocean away from your...
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“Got news from Mumbai that a junior from college fell off a crowded Mumbai local...”
– Sriram Venkitachalam Bombay - Richmond
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“Home: It’s the place I feel I have to get back to after I’m somewhere else for...”
– From another tumblr: Peter Knox
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“Home is that time between dark indigo skies and dawning suns. i welcome anyone...”
– via folklorista
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Grass is greener...
- Jyoti, Mumbai - Detroit
Born in Bombay, brought up in Mumbai….moved immediately after marriage to Detroit…still here….Undoubtedly Bombay is THE PLACE for me…I can just never let go of that name, that city…It has taught me to walk, run, talk, fight,live…has given me such precious moments, friends…There is an old saying ”grass is always greener on...
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Where (or what?) do you consider to be "home"?
mascarah:
Where your heart is? Your family lives? You rest your head each and every night? Where your friends are?
Director of Office Relations
- A different dsplacement, IdeaSmith
I’ve written about my uprooted office spaces. I knew that would be temporary so I didn’t put down roots. This Monday morning opened with the official announcement that we were moving offices. Not the months-in-planning location across the city; unaccounted for delays have cropped up. But in the meantime our, our current lease is nearing end so...
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Everything is big in Texas
- Tejas S, Ahemdabad-Dallas-Seattle-Jersey
Moved from Ahmd to Dallas to Seattle to Jersey :) Spend half of my life in Ahmd, so it’s my mother land, it will ALWAYS be my home. On the other hand, i call Dallas my home because my family is there, went to school there, mostly grew up there. People are nice, roads are big, no honking, things relatively cheaper, people actually know how to...
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Have you moved from one city to another? Which...
Abhishek M.
I moved from Kolkata to Bangalore and now to Singapore. But, Kolkata is home to me. The streets there have a familiar smell. The food is unmatched. There is idealism. And there is idle-ism. Life goes on at the right pace. You just can’t help feeling curious about the people, they intrigue you and yet, you feel so connected.
There is a little bit of paradise tucked away in...
Remembering Home
The pelmets for the curtains in the bedroom were simple wooden ones without any carvings. The curtains were maroon and worn out for most part. When we closed them on afternoons we napped, they would make the bedroom look maroon. You could watch reflections of people walking by on the street on the roof through the small openings on the top of the pelmets where the curtains did not stop the...
“Have you moved from one city to another? Which city do you call home and why?”
“Not all who wander are lost.”
– JRR Tolkein (via joshawesome)
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From Thailand to the Mekong Delta, Vietnam:
Victoria C, Thailand-Vietnam
In Vietnam, they wear the conical hats and paddle by in slender canoes that weave through bamboo forests alone creeks a few feet deep, and pineapple plants sometimes appear, with the fruit popping forth from the thick leaves. We stare at the vines from the boat, sweating, burning, observing, our pale skin alight with whatever sunlight has pierced through the...
March 2009
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New Jersey is nice
- A not so lost New Jerseyian Driving back into New Jersey New Jersey is nice, despite what they say. Its a suburban state that breeds comfort. There’s just something in the air that smells like memories and stillness. The slow pace of the Jerseyians makes you want to get lost in the woods, take your own time to explore and yet be back for dinner. To explain the metaphor better, the Jerseyians go...
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Reading the city
- Alina Alter
Tokyo swallowed me up in one neon-flashing, subway-mobbing, impossibly bright and impeccably-styled gulp. I live here now. I say the words carefully, letting them roll over my tongue (trembling from a day of stumbling through the staccato fortress that is Japanese). I’m glad to be seen carrying grocery bags down the alley behind my apartment- it means people know I live here. Were I...
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“Home is a familiar bed, bare feet that don’t tingle on the floor, a...”
– Sumant S., Mumbai
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“Home is about family. No matter where I am, if I’m with my family,...”
– Neha S., Philadelphia
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“Home is a place where you can be yourself. Where you are at peace.”
– Abhishek M. , Singapore
“Our streets are calendars containing who we were and who we will be next.”
– Colson Whitehead (via quotedropper) (via quote-book)
“One’s home is like a delicious piece of pie you order in a restaurant on a...”
– Lemony Snicket
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Those were the days
Abhishek Mittal, Kolkata - Bangalore - Singapore
Those were the days when we had friends - friends who are still friends for life. Never did I have so much fun. Beer Roundtables! “Golgappe” competitions! Leg-pulling! Leg-twisting! Trying to be the noisiest table in the restaurant! Sharing the last cigarette! The Discovery of Life…
Somehow, all I am left with are faded memories....
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My play with colors
- Shweta S, Mumbai-New York
A bonfire at night
Gulal on my forehead
Sweets on a platter
Warding off the evil
Start of a new season
Holi, the festival of color is amongst the few festivals that are celebrated across India in equal jest. It’s like Diwali but instead of lighting crackers, we splash color and water on each other.
Personally, I have never been a holi fan. My favorite part of...
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“Home is:
Night-blooming flowers - dama de noche, sampaguita (native jasmine of...”
– Christine, Boston
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Home away from home
- Divya V, Mumbai-Edison
A home is where one starts from
A home where it feels right to walk around without shoes.
A home where it’s okay to scratch where it itches
A home where they understand you
A home where you can say anything you please
A home where food tastes homely
A home where you feel safe to sleep
A home where whenever you go they take you in
A home where you fight for TV remote
A home...
Smells that take me home
Sandalwood incense, ghee, hot roti (rotlli) reminds me of home… oh and brother’s hookha tabacco.
- Anish Sana, South Africa
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“Smells of home: The smell of wet mud after the rain, ghee on hot parathas made...”
– Priyanka Kapoor, Singapore