Off to India

I am off to India!!
But right now I am still on the ground at the airport on the first of 3 lay-overs.
This morning, leaving the house, felt like moving through a dream-scape.
I finished packing of course but also paid extensive attention to every small detail of the house....leaving it tidy and clean and beautiful. I always do this when I leave for any length of time. It feels like a necessary ritual, an act of devotion to my home - which is a living breathing entity. I like to offer it my attention and gratitude before leaving it (and hoping to come back to it and to Chris in a month from now).
The dream-scape feeling was also coming from the contrast between "here" and "there"....It is verrrry cold here and I am going to where it is verrry warm. It is quiet and orderly and peaceful in my home and where I am going IT IS SO LOUD......
I went to India 10 years ago with my older son Eli, and I stayed for two months. Yesterday I finished rereading my blog posts from that time, which definitely refreshed my sensory memory about the intensity of the heat, humidity, mosquitoes, noise, pollution etc.  Nevertheless right now I feel like I have never been there before. I don't have big expectations.  I do hope to draw on adequate or good physical and emotional endurance. We'll see.
My main aim is to gently open to and lean into whatever India offers. And I want to LISTEN;  to be a wide-open, devoted and diligent student to Mother India.