Vacation

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I’m “on vacation.”
Vacation - an interesting word and a more-interesting concept.
Without delving into the scholarship of the origin of the word, it seems to me that vacation derives from the word vacate.
To leave, remove, empty.
Meditation teaches to empty — leave thoughts. Vacate. 
On a broader scale, this is also one of the objectives of a vacation.
But increasingly difficult to achieve.

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Fred Klein

People retired don't vacation, they travel...
Daniel Schwartz

I do find it increasingly difficult to vacate on vacation. With technology so prevalent, it's hard to escape and tune out work and other daily noise we are subjected to, weather wanted or not.
ODEY RAVIV

Extreme vacations are a new trend. No technology, no conversation, and no stimulation. Not sure if it's for me.
Tessa Marquis

In the early 1970s I had a publishing company, books and music, called "Permanent Vacation". Taken from My Boyfriend's Back (thank you Richard Gotteher, for everything)
My boyfriend's back he's gonna save my reputation
(Hey-la-day-la my boyfriend's back)
If I were you I'd take a permanent vacation
(Hey-la, hey-la, my boyfriend's back)
Kelly Welles

Vacations renew, revitalize and permit us to
rediscover who we really are, devoid of survival demands. "Man voes into the crowd to drown the clamor of his own silence," Rabdinath Tagor.

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