Insulation

I keep thinking about shedding insulation. Definition (c. 1538) from the Latin insulatus :"to make into an island". Or (c.1785) "cause a person to be detached from surroundings". The heat/electric definitions came later.
So it seems being in one place for so long can increase the insulation in life. Safety, a protective covering. Something that will not exist in the same way in new surroundings. Offering a look outside the protection, to seek other ways of being, doing, living. I don't see it as much a new beginning as another path chosen along the route. A different way to get to the place I've been going all along. Kind of like when the grocery store moves all the food around and you have to actually look at the shelves, which, in doing, causes you to notice things that have been there all along but haven't been as visible in the automaticity of shopping (I make my shopping list by aisles, FYI).
Truck packing tomorrow!