Stop putting the brakes on your life. That yellow caution light? Disable it for a while. Go full speed ahead on a project that seems pointless. Yes, you can learn to read music just for fun. Yes, you can write the book you think no one will buy. Yes, you can stop stalling and look for a new job. Cover copy by Nikki Hardin, art by Skopein “Let us step into the night and pursue that flighty temptress, adventure.” J.K. Rowling may Augusta, Aiken & Columbia FREE Escape the ordinary. Worry less about crashing and more about being stuck in cruise control. Recant “can’t.” What if you never step out of line? Never gamble your peace of mind? Never trouble the world? Life will just climb through the window if you try to lock the door on it. It wants your Yes, your Now, your Full Monty. Out there, you’ll find danger and dragons, detours and disappoint- ments, but it’s also full of magic and miracles, joy and juice. Go get some.
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Stop putting the brakes on your life.
That yellow caution light? Disable it
for a while. Go full speed ahead on
a project that seems pointless. Yes,
you can learn to read music just for
fun. Yes, you can write the book you
think no one will buy. Yes, you can
stop stalling and look for a new job.
Cover copy by Nikki Hardin, art by Skopein
“Let us step into the night and pursue that �ighty temptress, adventure.”
J.K. Rowling
may
Augusta, Aiken & Columbia
F R E E
E s c a p e t h e o r d i n a r y .
Worry less about crashing and more
about being stuck in cruise control.
Recant “can’t.” What if you never step
out of line? Never gamble your peace
of mind? Never trouble the world?
Life will just climb through the window
if you try to lock the door on it. It
wants your Yes, your Now, your Full
Monty. Out there, you’ll �nd danger
and dragons, detours and disappoint-
ments, but it’s also full of magic and
miracles, joy and juice. Go get some.
may2014
A mission to build a colony on Mars is underway. More than 200,000 applied for the
adventure. From that, 1,058 candidates were selected. I know one of them. Maybe you
do, too. Jan Millsapps, a writer and filmmaker, was my professor at the University of
South Carolina when I was in grad school. Yes, she’s one of those hoping to relocate
to the fourth planet from the sun. As I follow her Facebook updates, I wonder if she
will. First, she’d have to be selected for the next round, which involves
some sort of simulated life-on-Mars reality TV-ish experience.
Then, she’d have to leave loved ones for a trip from which
she doesn’t expect to return. We all have our dream
adventures, and I guess there’s only one person who
has to think they make sense. Otherwise, we might not
have had Amelia Earhart, Nellie Bly or Sally Ride. This
month, you can read in our pages about Earth-bound
adventures, maybe even dream up one of your own. And
if you’re curious about Jan’s next chapter, keep tabs on her
About the Cover Artist Skopein is the artistic nom de plume of Luiz, a Brazilian artist based in São Paulo. Luiz studied graphic design and illustration and has worked in editorial and advertising. cargocollective.com/kot-illustration/skopein
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Lao Tzu
"Beautyis whatever
gives joy."
Edna St. Vincent Millay
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Asian Proverb
d es t i n a t i o n : e n j o y t h e v i ew .
"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes,
but having new eyes."
Marcel Proust
Hear the call of the wild. Answer with your Ray-Ban Sunglasses—you’re headed straight for the sun.
Call back with a cowgirl hat—experience, meet style. Before you come back, take one last look
and make sure your iPhone is on for that next call. Wherever it may take you.
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My boots are constantly itching to find the perfect place to live. Like Goldilocks, I’m always looking for “just right.” A place I’d recognize instantly, where I’d feel at home in my body, at peace in my soul,
at one with the landscape. It’s not that I think my life would be better elsewhere, but that I’d finally belong somewhere. But this yearning seems to me innately human. Aren’t we always scanning the horizon, straining to catch a glimpse of heaven?
When it’s probably the ground under our feet and the people we carry in our hearts, no matter where we are.
Follow Nikki’s blog at fridaville.com.
m a y
Founder of skirt! Magazine
I want to know how the
sun looks like rising over
an African plain. How the
rain sounds on an English
moor. How the thyme-
and sun-scented hills of
Greece smell on a summer
afternoon. Home is never
enough for me, and yet
home is a haven I hate to
leave. Maybe I’ll never take
the Trans-Siberian Railway,
but my imagination has a
ticket to ride.
“We are
homesick most
for the places
we have never
known.”
Carson McCullers
Where I �nd the magic:Uppercase is a quarterly
magazine aimed at “the
creative and curious”
and �lled with eye candy.
There’s never an issue
without something to
inspire me or make me sigh
or make me want to try.
I only wish it were
published more often.
t h i s m o n t h I a m l o v i n g ~
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