The Return

This December, the wheel of the year brings us back to new beginnings

This December I find myself in the beautiful beach town Puerto Escondido, Mexico, just like last year I found myself in St. Augustine, Florida. The two are quite different in architectural style, temperature, and character, and yet both have brought me before Mother Ocean. She calms me, reminds me of the ebbs and flows in life, and how to find joy in all of it, how to let go of troubling thoughts and exist in flow and appreciation. Our time in Mexico is trickling by, first with the beauty of the beach, followed by the mountainous beauty of my mother’s hometown and time with family. At the halfway mark, we’ll be steadily working our way up Mexico, until we reach Arizona, where it all started (once at the outset of our nomadic journey and again before our descent to Mexico). This time we’ll be spending the holidays in the States, the completion of another cycle. Yet with this return, what feels like an end becomes another beginning. We return with a greater understanding of home, and a top contending city. This year the nomadic journey ends, but the cultivation of home begins. As we all go through our own cycles, it can be helpful to think of what new chapters we are opening, as we close out another. We’ve had joyous experiences that we’ll always treasure and remember, and more to look forward to, though they may seem quite different at first. At the core, the question remains the same, though our answer may change. 

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