comfort zone

noun: a place or situation where one feels safe or at ease and without stress

Oh how lovely to be in my little bubble. My comfort zone. My routine. I wake up and go through my schedule slowly and methodically, day in and day out. Coffee, yoga, work. Cleaning, cooking, caring for my family. It’s a safe place of predictability, slow and steady comfort that is under my control.

But outside of that bubble is a big wide world of beauty and complexity that beckons. Whenever I step outside of my comfort zone I am rewarded. With what? It is hard to put a name on discovery. Excitement? Anticipation? Endorphins? Perhaps it is just the continued revelation that I am so small. There is nature of course that looms large and majestic and wild. And then there are people who are kind and creative. That heady mix shifts my…