This is a series of posts that will log some of my thoughts in the month leading up to my moving back to New Zealand.
The Red Bridge in Hot Springs North Carolina
It feels like we’ve reached the beginning of the end of our time back in the States. Mary and I spent last night with some of our dearest friends in Hot Springs, North Carolina. We both left this afternoon feeling sad, but then we realized it was okay because sadness is just one of the many facets of love.
This is a series of posts that will log some of my thoughts in the month leading up to my moving back to New Zealand.
I kept a tumblr blog during my first trip to New Zealand in 2012. Below is a snippet and a link to my last post. Read on if you are interested.
Taking The Leap
April 2012
One week ago we stood at the end of New Zealand’s North Island, Cape Reinga, atop the spit of land that jutts out into the ocean where the Pacific and Tasman Sea meet in a clash of…
— Read on twonewzealand.tumblr.com/post/21512294004/taking-the-leap
This is a series of posts that will log some of my thoughts in the month leading up to my moving back to New Zealand.
I’m feeling some growing anxiety about returning to New Zealand. It won’t be easy. Difficult things never are. Staying here wouldn’t be easy either. It probably comes down to comfort. Being in this large (to us) house is comfortable. Living in a small community where you often run into someone you know is comfortable. Having a job where on many days I can come and go as I like is comfortable.
But living in such a volatile political climate is uncomfortable. I could make a list of things that are uncomfortable about being here, but why? Am I trying to convince myself we’re making the right move? How many brain cycles have Mary and I spent ruminating over whether or not we are doing the “right” thing or on what that right thing is? Countless.
Feelings come and go. Excitement about running up, over, and around the hills of Wellington one minute, followed by anxiety about being so far from friends and family the next. The transition times are usually the hardest. Maybe this one will be less so since we are going back to something more or less known.