I'm not in Kansas anymore

I arrived in Sao Paulo on a cold, rainy day and I thought to myself.  I’m not in Kansas anymore. The thoughts of why would you leave Salvador, the beautiful sunny weather, the beaches, the tranquility.  You are now in Sao Paulo where it is cold and rainy.  I now needed to wear boots again.  Self doubt entered.  Did I make the right decision?  In a couple of days I will head to Minas Gerais but the weather is the same there.  But then I met with my sisters, whom I had been studying Shamanism with, to go to a waterfall where we cleansed ourselves with clay and bathed underneath the cold falling waters.  It was absolutely beautiful.  That night we went to a Gypsy party, where I felt like a gypsy.  When you think of gypsy, it is a person who travels, is free and intuitive.  Maybe I am a gypsy? I felt the love of my Sao Paulo family.  

A few days later I caught the bus to Minas Gerais.  It was wonderful being back there at the community in the mountains.  I suddenly realized.  I am in Kansas. Kansas is wherever I go.  We can be happy wherever we live.  It is up to us to see the nature and wonders around us.  I can be happy living in a beach town, I can be happy living in the mountains or I can be happy living in the city, where it gets cold in the winters.  Kansas is a state of mind.