I have to give blogging a try as I experience so many markers that are so hard to talk about during this gigantic life transition that's happening. Leaving my job, after being at Kaiser for 7 1/2 years was filled with relief, joy, anxiety and just sheer gratitude. I felt so much emotion that starting to blog about my travels has got to start with the send off from all my co-workers mixed with all the celebratory hugs & high fives from friends later on in the evening. Yesterday for my office send off, Loretta made a great basket with a Lonely Planet Guide to Bali & Lombok and had everyone in the office sign it. So as I go through it while planning my trip I keep running into people's notes to me. The rest of the basket was filled with liquid bandages, an REI giftcard, Liquid Benadryl, anti-diarrhea pills (those will go with the cipro I'm bringing), tide, & wet ones. I really felt the weight of life lift a bit and I could really enjoy those moments.
This morning it still didn't seem quite real that I quit my job to travel. So I took my Lonely Planet Guide to Bali & Lombok to Samovar to have breakfast and ponder my trip there. My sister-in-law Ann met me there for lunch because I was still there hanging out and I was so happy just catch up and get a hug from her too. That and Kelsey's yoga class pretty much made up my whole day today. I feel so tired. Like I need to really take things slowly for a little while and just decompress and let go of work. It could take a little while and I just need to let it be what it is.
As I was sitting in Samovar this morning reading through my Lonely Planet Guide from the office I came across Adrian's good-bye to me and he wrote a quote that I love.
"Let your mind start a journey through a strange new world. Leave all thoughts of the world you knew before. Let your soul take you where you long to be...close your eyes, let your spirit start to soar and you'll live as you've never lived before". - Eric Fromm. Thanks Adrian.
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