Thoughts from the Ruins
On a visit to Cumberland Island, Georgia, I heard that there was a path that would take me directly to the ruins of Dungeness. I had never heard of these ruins before, but I knew that I had to see them. I was on a journey inward. This entire trip was to help me get myself together and reduce my stress. My children were off on a vacation with their father, and this was the perfect time for me to do whatever it is my soul needed so that I wouldn’t spend every single day so stressed that I couldn’t cope. I hadn’t been the mother that I wanted to be in the past couple of months. I had been too busy struggling under the weight of stress. I was impatient with my children and permanently exhausted no matter how early I went to bed each night. This trip was supposed to help me change that.
Without sparing too much time for the details, I had gone through a difficult breakup followed by financial devastation in those months before the trip. I knew that I couldn’t go on at this level of stress so I decided that the best thing for me would be to change my environment, even if only for a couple of days. I needed a change of scenery, an escape. But I didn’t want one positively brimming with people. I didn’t need conversation and events. I needed quiet and nature. I needed to journey inward to make peace with my situation and to see a way forward from it. I needed to forgive and to summon my resourcefulness and…
