"I recently went home for two weeks and I did not really tell anyone. I just went to see my family. I wanted to see how hard it would be for me to get in and out of the country. I wanted to feel what it felt like.I wanted to hold my children again. And I hadn't been home in over a year."
"I don't regret leaving at all. I think I did what I needed to do to save myself, my child and my sanity. And I'm very happy that I'm not in the midst of it there because the energy that I felt while in the United States was, if I could use the most simple word I can think of, it was scary. There's a feeling that something is really wrong and no one is doing anything about it."
A two-week trip home tested how hard it would be to get in and out of the country and provided time to hold children after more than a year apart. The trip aimed to confirm safety before bringing a daughter for a planned summer stay away from schooling. Time spent in New York felt like a very different country with less celebrity worship, more balance in news and life, and reduced emphasis on constant acquisition. Leaving offered protection for personal and family well-being and sanity. The energy in the United States felt scary, with a pervasive sense that something was wrong and unaddressed.
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