TRAVEL HAPPY

Feeling Big - helping mama do laundry

feeling big copyright 2008 TAS  (click to make it bigger) 

Remember that feeling?  I felt big, when I was 6.  My older brother and three sisters went to school and I stayed home with my mother. There wasn't a kindergarten class in my town, so I got quality time with my mother.  One on One. 

I helped with grocery shopping, laundry, cleaning the house and in the caring for my baby sister.  And I did so with glee, cuz I was BIG.

Feeling Big photo came as a surprise on a bus ride through the Wild Coast of  South Africa.   so take off- senses wide open and resist the lullaby of the bus. 

Simple Bliss -taking pause at 70 km/hour

Wild Coast, South Africa TAS copyright 2008, check out this photo in Bus Blur, taken at 70km on a pot hole road.  (Click on the painting to make it BIGGER)  to see more  Bus Blur see the photos in the right hand column.

It's quite natural to have a feeling of simple bliss. As a child, I experienced bliss. . . sitting on the porch and watching night fall.  The stillness in the air, the faint smell of green cooling in the fading light and sounds of the night creatures, signaled a time of the coming of dusk.

 Deconstructing the western life down to basic needs of bed for rest, walking to the market for food, creating  art as a way of making a living and hanging on to bare essentials,  gives me this same simple bliss.  

This photo symbolizes, this shift in me. . . taking a pause. I thank you,  people of Indonesia and Africa for showing  me back to  bliss.  take off - senses wide open.  

Travel Detours

Detour Deterrents - Take Off digital collage by TAS - lilboutlot

deterrent copyright 2008 TAS

 

Have you ever wondered, what has you NOT take off, senses wide open and travel happy more often?   Take a look at those seemingly supportive heavenly homebodies, who will do anything to keep you near your nest.   Just say, absence makes your heart grow fonder and you can take off - senses wide open.