Letters from Abroad

Breaking Free and Being Mentally Elsewhere

Dennis Joyce
4 min readJan 31, 2024

Centering yourself is an active choice

Walking away from ourselves (Credit: Dall-E 2)

Over the past two years, I’ve been exchanging letters with a friend of mine living in Scotland. He’s a writer, I’m a writer, and we’ve been sharing ideas of how to best lead a worthwhile life in the face of a world that says: no.

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Dennis Joyce

Not a philistine (yet). Essays on writing, film, literature, and travel.