Reverb 10: Healing

What healed you this year? Was it sudden, or a drip-by-drip evolution? How would you like to be healed in 2011?

Surprise! This post will not be about Jason.

This year, what healed me was New Orleans. Memorial Day weekend, I spent three days helping to rehabilitate houses. Doing good, and doing labor that required me to move my entire body left me feeling EXHAUSTED by the end of every day, but oh so satisfied. I came back feeling amazed and happy and absolutely in love with the world, with my chosen fam and with the Big Easy.

Every time I visit the Crescent City, I’m reminded that life doesn’t have to be full of stress and hurry; that talking to people usually yields better answers than Google; that eating well and drinking well are good things; and that sometimes you just need to dance in the street.