My three or four week "travel hangover" seems to have passed (a nasty sensation of fear, loneliness, and despair wrapped in one). Now life feels bland. That part was predictable, at least, whereas the how/what/when of the travel hangover was unknown until it happened. So my challenge is to get enough Good Things in my life such that life doesn't feel so bland. I doubt "regular life" can match how I felt while traveling, but that's ok. I think I can make regular life more interesting than it has been in the past, but if I can't, I'm going to consider more drastic options.
Regardless of how that plays out, I'm going to hit the road again in two or three years. Being in love with life like that is not something I am willing to experience only once.
you are the media you consume.
Being in love with life like that is not something I am willing to experience only once.
born for cultural pollination, methinks.
you'll be welcome to stop by if you do, meanwhile good luck alchemising the banal! ~"When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate." Karl Jung~
splendid, it will balance your intellectuality, and give it plenty of spacetime to ruminate once your hands learn to find their own way.
try and find a book called 'job's body'. it will help you prepare.
here's where i was working a couple of weeks ago
by all means email me ~"When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate." Karl Jung~
And maybe it is now a time in your life cycle for inner jounrey's until you are ready to travel again. I reread a few weeks ago Dan Millman's "The peaceful warrior" and I think, it's be a book you might enjoy at the present time, especially as he shares also your name. :-)
another great writer is hugh milne, who gives classes in craniosacral therapy at wupperthal, in switzerland.
he also teaches in the USA and germany. if you're interested in a shamanic approach, read his stuff. ~"When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate." Karl Jung~
I doubt "regular life" can match how I felt while traveling, but that's ok.
Even while I haven't made as grand an undertaking you have this year, I know the feeling well. It'll work out, one way or the other.
As I recently mused in my Norway journals, I've not been able (yet?) to match the level of that first experience during further travels. Perhaps there is no such thing as two first experiences. But well. I am not you.
In the meantime, enjoy family and the winter season.
