Post-travel Permissions

You are allowed to go to bed early and sleep in late.

You are allowed to go slow, to sink back into home, to let the stimulation of the last few days mellow out and ripen into inspiration.

You are allowed to make a second pot of tea, all for yourself.

You are allowed to read whatever you want.

You are allowed to watch the sky from your couch, watch it turn from a cold grey haze to a gentle blue buoyed up by fluffy white clouds.

You are allowed to skip taking a walk because the wind chill makes the air feel like 20 degrees, even though the sun is shining.

You can give yourself these permissions -- these gentle kindnesses -- again and again. You can repeat them to yourself, because you know that you need the repetition in order to remember.

Comments

[liz]

yes
yes
yes

holding space for all of it.

[Jamye]

funny, but these are the things i permiss myself to do *during* my travels. here on a compltely unstructured and open writing retreat, luxuriating in the hours before me without schedule, reading with abandon, and soon, writing the same way.