It happens each year. Almost as soon as I start the ride home from the tikkun olam week the sun feels warmer, the sky looks bluer and the landscape appears greener. I bubble with thoughts, joy, about what an amazing place this world is and how lucky I am to be experiencing it so fully. I'm not sure why this is, but a week of exposure to less - less food, less luxury, less affluence - seems to be more. It really intensifies my sense of experience of the world around me. Is it that I have removed some clutter from my life for one week? Is it that in doing a little repair of the world I see the reality of what it could or should be? Or is it the bonds I create with others in the process of doing the work? And then all too soon - poof! - I am back to the way I was, with only the faintest recollection that there is something greater out there. With each tikkun olam trip the recalling of this joy gets clearer.
What's your experience of re-entry from the tikkun olam week back into normal life? It would be wonderful to hear from others.
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