04/15/2024
* Long post *
Do you ever have those moments where you feel overwhelmed by emotion? A smell 👃🏽? A sight 👁️? A landmark 🏔️? Recently I moved into my childhood home. I’ve been spending so much time remodeling and putting things together that I haven’t fully sat back and taken it all in.
Until yesterday….And for how emotionally challenged I typically am, it brought on so many.
This house was/is my safe space. Growing up, moving around from living in cars, to motel rooms, to U-Haul trucks, to random strangers houses, I knew that if/when we made it back, I was going to be okay.
During my alone time, I’d grab my boombox, baby oil, a towel and some snacks and lay out on the roof for hours absorbing all of the sun that would fry my flesh 👙☀️ Yesterday I am grateful to have had a similar experience. Only this time I had my phone for music, my journal, a towel, a chicken salad wrap and was slathered in sunscreen (how I don’t look like a leather bag yet is a mystery) and I experienced all of those same feelings again. Calmness, peacefulness, safety, and just genuine happiness. ✨😌
Moral of the story, I didn’t roll off my roof and die like my grandma always thought I would. Aaaaand, most of the time it’s the simple things that bring on so much joy. And almost all of the time these are things we can provide for ourselves.
