Good morning from Milano. I’m sitting here this morning thinking about how powerful it can be when we are able to reframe things for ourselves. I’m thinking about it because this morning I was talking to a girlfriend of mine, Gloria, and she said wow, you sound happy this morning.Somewhere in our conversation, I happened to mention that I shipped a box of things back to the United States yesterday and she said to me, Oh, you’ve lightened your load, that’s why.

This struck me because yesterday was a rainy gloomy day and I was feeling a little bit blue. In fact, my prevailing thought was this is the beginning of the end On the one hand, I did draw a little bit of a line in the sand for myself by sending the box off because that box included my summer things. I’ve had this thought in the back of my mind, Oh, I’m leaving right when spring arrives, maybe I’ll delay my departure. This has been coupled with the fantasy of going to Sicily or going to someplace warm dancing in the back of my head. And I purchased my ticket on points so that I can always change it. Sipping that box did in fact delineate the beginning of the end.  I am starting to wind things down and I do feel lighter this morning. I think that buoyancy is in part coming from physically from having less stuff. At the same time, it’s finally having made the decision that yes, it’s indeed time to go home.

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