Mindset of leaving

-
Today is a great day for us.
The kitchen will be finished and we slept our first night in our new home.
It feels great to be here.
I love the fact that the veggie garden is so close and that I can go out to pick up some leaves and make us a salad.
We already cooked our first meal of pizza and a salad, using our new kitchen.
With our departure date so imminent, I feel like I am half here and half in Colorado.
My mind wonders into the arid mountains surrounding our home, the bike trails, the greens of Aspen, the vegetarian bistro we eat at on weekends, the tulips growing in the gardens around Aspen, classical music concerts, the song of birds on our Sweetwater creek, the hot mineral pools at Glenwood Springs.
It will be great to be there when the weather turns rainy here in NZ.
While Jules seem to dive seamlessly into his work at any location, I always go through an adjustment period.
I haven’ gone into the studio since we left to Singapore and I still need to pack four paintings.
I plan to do so today.

Popular posts from this blog

Days 44 & 45 - Hengchun To Taipei, And Rewarding Ourselves In The Hot Springs Town Of Beitou, The Long Walk South In Taiwan

-
Image
  Days 44 & 45 - Hengchun To Taipei, And Rewarding Ourselves In The Hot Springs Town Of Beitou, The Long Walk South In Taiwan   Last night, the Taiwan National Weather Service issued a typhoon warning and evacuation orders for the southeastern coast, exactly in the location where we were scheduled to walk. We decided to cancel the coastal walk, because the heritage trail was closed anyway, and instead head back to Taipei. But getting back to Taipei from our southeastern location would take some time. First we needed to get to the city of Hengchun, where we could take a three hour long bus to the city of Kaohsiung, and then take the high speed train to Taipei Station. The hiking group was in good spirits this morning, cooking breakfast and packing up their gear. We were all a bit disappointed that we didn’t get to hike the scenic route along the southeastern coast, but it was clear now that this typhoon was a massive one. News reports described it as a once in 30 years stor...
Read more