Seasick, homesick and outside the comfort zone. I leave behind my secret garden in Bali where I’ve been hiding away for a month…writing my novel in solitude, indulging in fragrant flowers by the pool. I pack my fins, paints, and Kindle and jump on the Golden Queen fast boat from Padang Bay to Gili Air. Gili Air…an island I walked around in 1.5hrs. No motorized vehicles, just feet, bicycles and horse drawn carts. No dogs allowed. Cats everywhere. No policemen. Quiet. I getaway adventure to refresh my creativity. I would very much like to share the experience with someone special. This is just another solo journey with all of myself.
I need a break from writing this book. This project is so intense for me. I needed an escape. No writing, not even journaling … that’s big for me. I write everyday… thousands and thousands of words. Gulp. Breaks are challenging when we are living with passion. Breaks are necessary. We must allow our genius to breathe fresh air. Space is medicine. I will think and read and do yoga and walk. I will watch the sun and moon. I will dove in the ocean and speak to the old turtles. I will start running again at sunrise and sunset. I will not write though….it’s only for a week.
At first it’s hard to stop writing. It’s one of my strongest habits. Then it gets easier as I feel the space open up around my day. Hours freed up for something other than words. I fill them with shopping for silver jewelry, smoothie bowls, yoga classes, teaching yoga on YouTube, reading Peter Pan and The Hobbit. The days take a long slow time. I get my feet massaged and I go scuba diving three times; once with turtles and baby sharks, once with seahorses and weird animals like juvenile yellow box fish and frog fish, and once at night with squid, octopus and giant eels that were spotted like giraffes!! These took courage for me. I caught a chilly cold and ear ache in the ocean too which put me in bed for a day or two…more reading and voice messages with friends around the timezones.
Love & Rainbows,
Cha Wilde
