I felt such a connection with Africa that I boarded the plane on Wednesday night with a feeling of sadness, even though I was excited to be returning to all that makes up my life here. When we touched down yesterday morning, I didn’t experience the usual sense I have of homecoming. A part of me seemed to be resisting leaving Africa and desiring that I stay where my body and soul remembered being, a land where I felt so at ease.
This feeling, asked that I connect to being present and to being here, now! And so I took the steps through arrivals, showed my passport – and Ange and I walked out into an incredibly beautiful September morning. The sun was streaking red and orange over Heathrow, the mists were rising from the ground and the air was clean and fresh. The light had that yellowy translucent glow that reminds me of first day of school, of getting up early again to catch the bus, the smell of my fresh school uniform heralding new things, better things, all the possibilities of a new beginning.
Africa has been a pause, an amazing experience that has reached something in me deep inside which will unravel and show on the outside for sure! This is the way it is, we shift on the inside and the outside changes. It is the way it is. Going within is the way we grow and transform our lives.
Running allows for a depth of meditation that means that our life can become a meditation on the move, each step leading us closer to knowing who we truly are.
I arrived home at 8am and it felt good. I had arranged to meet Fi www.runningfreemag.co.uk at 10 am to run and I couldn’t wait to see her. I so love running with her and this summer we have been apart for weeks as our lives have taken us in different directions.
There she was! We hugged each other and then set off up onto the downs, talking together as if there had been but a comma since our last conversation…
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