So wow…last night. It’s been such an amazing year. So much learning. I cannot even process it all.
These last three weeks being alone have given me some time to reflect but mostly I have just had more learning experiences: the children’s hospital and the massage school. I feel a bit full up on the learning to tell the truth. I think it’s time to slow down and stop making so many new things happen.
I remember my first trip to Russia (and 2nd, 3rd, 4th, ….) how hard it was to be in such a foreign place and how happy I was to return home. Returning was simpler then.
While I’m so excited to see my kids, family and friends, this return is more complicated. Jobs to be found, a place to live, schools and childcare. We just did all that in Bangkok 6 months ago and now we’ll do it again.
The experience of this year has been worth any setbacks or disappointments. And that is why, although I’m exhausted and missing my family, research has begun for a February trip. It is on the road that I feel most alive, that I really experience the world, and that I live each day to its fullest.
But for now I am ready to go back. I look forward to the ease of life. To being understood when I speak. To clean air and green parks. To being around people who know and love me.
I’ll be in LA the next time I post. Then the stateside wandering will begin.
