Travel (for me) lights me up and gets me out of my routines. I have SO MANY routines/rituals in my daily life and it feels very important to get away from that – to try new things. To be inconvenienced…and increase my mental flexibility. To not sweat the small stuff…and delight in the new.
The white frangipani that smells like Hawaii, and the pink (the pink!) that smells unlike anything I’ve experienced – heady and intoxicating.
Out of my comfort zone – my routines, my rituals: the oolong tea, steeping just so, my memory foam pillow, all the things…
Sweet longing for my children, worlds away
Watching the sunrise every morning (courtesy of jet lag, but leaving me open-mouthed in amazement)
All the colors of an equatorial sky
Learning “thank you” in another language
Hearing calls to prayer, roosters greeting the morning, Hindu celebrations night and day
Ceremonies, cremations, traffic
Rice fields – greenest green
Cendana incense…New Rituals
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