The gifts of a holiday can be the taste of carefree-ness; the glimpse of other vistas; the change of scene and circumstance.
Upon returning home, reality can feel a bit like a thud.
Here are our familiar routines again. Here we return to the responsible zone with caregiving layered on again. And just for a moment, or maybe a little longer, the gear-change seems hard.
My watercolour Dragonfly image overlooks me at my desk as I write these words and feel these feels – welcoming me home it seems. Curiosity nudges me to visit the website universeofsymbolism.com where the description of the spiritual meaning of Dragonfly includes –
Dragonfly totem energy reminds you of the Divine message of Light – as the Dragonfly reflects the light and opens creative imagination to flow in your life.
universeofsymbolism.com
There is a message there for the caregiver in me – to seek and find the creative freedoms within the responsibility.
An enduring gift from being on holiday is thus revealed – a brief ‘escape’ can lead us back to the heart of the caring role with encouragement, especially when we acknowledge the challenge in the transition and are patient with ourselves in the process.
Heartally 
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