Kiss and Don't Tell

It seems that everyone is taking in a guest these days. It’s a tricky thing sharing your space whether by choice or circumstance. We all want to bend over backwards to make our guest feel at home but what happens when our home stops being our own? How do you find space for yourself? It is possible to let someone in and still keep your distance?

Opening your door to someone is in many ways like opening your heart. It’s not always easy. Some of us aren’t used to opening up. It can hurt, but we do what we can for our guests. We try to be hospitable, giving them whatever they desire. Sometimes all you can do is help them feel better while they wait to return home and soon enough the guest is gone leaving us to move the couch, do the laundry, go back to our lives as usual….if that’s possible. But what happens if you don’t want to move the couch, do laundry and go back to life as usual?

Wander Lust

Travel is good for the soul. It opens your eyes and takes your mind and body to new places. But what about the people who stay behind? How can we trust that you won’t be seduced by these new sights and sounds? If you set something you love free, can you really trust that it will come back to you?

I think we're born with a desire to roam the earth. We crawl, then walk, then run all in an effort to move further away then where we came from. Changing one’s surrounding is good for the heart. And now I also know that sometimes staying home and letting others go can be its own fantastic journey. Because when you let go of something, you make room for something else entirely. Something you never expected. Something that makes home seem like its own unexpected adventure, a trip where new treasures are found around every old corner, where the world and its complexities come right to your doorstep. Because in the end the power is not just with those who go away, but also in what they leave behind.