OK. I admit it. I'm a reluctant traveler. I don't like being confined in the sardine can some call an airplane. I feel alienated when plucked from my universe. I don't like crowds. And the TSA and Customs agents give me "agita." (Google it.) Traveling is a loss: the loss of the comfortable, the familiar, the known. Travel demands we let go of our grip on what we have and open ourselves to something else.
On the 26th of December, the aftermath of Christmas dinner still in the dishwasher, I took an early-morning flight to Turks and Caicos. Would I be able to loosen my grip? There are so many things to let go of.
Letting go of the cold:
Letting go of gray, dark skies and naked branches:
Letting go of stress:
Letting go of the old year:
HAPPY NEW YEAR! IN this new year, may we all learn when to hold on and when to let go.
In some cultures, it is the custom to print on slips of paper practices or attitudes we'd like to remove from our lives, such as anger, grudges, recklessness, etc. and burn them away, sending them up in smoke on New Year's Eve and beginning the new year with a clean slate.
LEAVE A MESSAGE. WHAT WOULD YOU LIKE TO LET GO OF IN THIS NEW YEAR?
I am SO PROUD of you and HAPPY that you took this trip! Also, I MISS YOU TERRIBLY!
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Thank you, cugina....you are a sweetheart. Mi manchi anche te, bella.
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