I am lonely this summer. You know that feeling when you’re at a picnic full of friends and family, people who love you, but you still feel a deep sense of loneliness? I’m feeling that. I’m not sure why. I think part of it is because I have not done any traveling this year. I love planning for and going on adventures. It fills me up, the connecting with new places and people and experiences. We did not take a vacation this year. I’ve tried to plan some other smaller family adventures but there is not much interest from the fam. So I decided I would take all this lonely, stuck in the mud energy and put it to good use!
I made a list (hoping to get to 100) of activities that I knew would help me climb out of the loneliness pit. I choose one thing from it every day and do it. Help me add to it in the comments below. (more…)