Week 4, 2021 - Going home

I’m tapping away on my phone in the darkness of the airplane, in the final stages of the long and complicated process of getting myself home. 

There were loose ends to tie up, shopping and packing to be done, paperwork to be printed and filled in, covid tests to be taken... that’s in parallel to wondering if I should stay a while longer, while worrying about the EU restrictions that changed right before my departure date. There’s a fair amount of mental fortification needed to get through it but I’m almost home. Just crossing my fingers that it’ll be smooth at Charles de Gaulle! 

I’m incredibly fortunate to have been in a position where I could remove myself from the claws of malaise and detachment, long enough to recharge and start nurturing saplings that I’d painstakingly planted in the last few months of 2020. I benefitted greatly from being in a known environment I know like the back of my hand, with access to abundant resources and energy. Now, I’m ready to go home.