Saturday, March 26, 2016
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