When You Move

A  L  O  H  A !

Every Critter Enjoys a Bit of Sun

 "No road is long 

with good company." 

                       Turkish Proverb 

 DUCK!

"If you want to study 

ducks and to learn all 

that is possible to know 

about ducks, then you 

had better love ducks."

                       Abraham Maslow

Or People...

Pride  Survivor

"To fly up to the sky 

and watch the 

earth is beautiful; 

to fly down to the 

earth and watch the sky

is even more beautiful!"

                      Mehmet Murat ildan

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When you move

from a longtime home,

you realize how much

your identity and well being

consist of the people, places

and memories of your home area.

Everything 'back home' is deeply

detailed. With the internet, you

can read the home news,

watch the traffic, and talk

to your same friends all day

every day.

Your 'new home' by contrast

seems barren, unknown,

and possibly inhabited by

your worst fears, chief 

among them: isolation.

You are at the end of your

story that you know,

consoled only by what

brought you here

to this desert of everything

needful and familiar.

Look, as humans we know

that leaving the Earth

would be fatal to us;

but changing locations

ON the Earth?

No one told us we

would need a support

system for THAT too!

Slowly where you are

becomes more real.

The 'old place' recedes

to memories and stories.

Your dreams become less

anxious and upturned.

A necessary sense of  mastery

returns as you drive lost 

in thought, attentive to the

traffic, without the stress and

doubt of finding somewhere

strange. 

It's not all that strange

anymore.

So that's where I am.

Springlike days beguile.

Routines, BLESSED

routines sprout up.

Vigilance can wane.

Lost in a jelling thing

called 'home.'

Thank You

for being 'home folk'

                     Fondly, cloudia