New Beginnings
Day One Italian Language School. I am learning the basics. Yesterday was ABCs and 123s. Since moving here I hadn’t had the time or emotional energy to tackle learning the language. I’m ready now. 4 weeks. 4 hours a day. Level 1. Io parlo Italiano. Level 2, 3,4 and 5 remain. But as Italians say Piano, Piano, Piano. With doors to the past closing and my normal life and company as I know it gone post covid, I am being reborn. I start over. In every thing it seems.
Now is the time to learn.
Last week I learned to walk again with lesson one of the tango. With my dominant hand out of full functioning order temporarily I am learning to write with my left hand.
I had promised myself when the divorce, the audit and the visa issues were solved I would diet. I didn’t have the energy before then. To kickstart the diet I did a Detox liquid diet and am now building a new healthier way of eating which mostly involves less alcohol.
I’ve ended a slew of toxic relationships that were about control instead of collaboration. New relationships coming to me are all collaborative egalitarian relationships.
All 3 problems I’ve been dealing with this last year are on the cusp being solved.
New routines in these new times take structure. I wake. I write. I meditate. I pray. I do yoga. I drink lemon water. I eat breakfast. I have my coffee. I finish my Italian homework - il compito - I walk to school - la scuola. I go to the home office in the afternoon.
Work doesn’t look like it did. No travel, no speaking engagements, no tours. Life as I knew it is gone. I’ve reorganized my office. It’s no longer half office- half guest room. It’s just an office. I no longer have guests.
I’m lonely. I realize I don’t know enough people in town - with travel and guests before Covid I didn’t feel alone. Now I do so I am getting out there making new friends. New relationships.
I struggled introducing myself this weekend in Lido at a Democrats Abroad meeting. Who am I?
Post Covid - It’s a new day. A new life. A good day. A good life. A different life. It’s scary because I cannot see the future. I have no clue what tomorrow brings. But today- in this moment - it’s a good day.
I stay in the moment.
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