The globes and maps of my childhood and adolescence taught me a bit. But wow, the world is huge!
I could see myself. I stepped out of my body and turned back to see my outsides. I saw myself in perpetual movement, eternal. I could not focus only on me. I saw myself as a component to the inclusiveness of the huge Earth. I saw myself only stopping to listen to others' stories, shooting-the-shit with family and friends. I was traveling alone. I was taking many different things that were not my own. God's world, The Mystery.
Sometimes, though, I really think about having a permanence on Earth. A grasp for assurance that will exist in 2 days, 5 months, or 10 years from now.
A Home. Home is many places. Where I was born is not one of those, yet it is. Home can be a place of memory, experience, conversation, or all three in haphazard flux and fluidity.
Home is inclusive. Its darkness overcome by Light, Christ, Goodness, Beauty or full-blown Emotion and Feeling. Home is a place where friends and family live. Places of short-term occupation and those places' fellow occupants. Home is today.
I could see myself. I stepped out of my body and turned back to see my outsides. I saw myself in perpetual movement, eternal. I could not focus only on me. I saw myself as a component to the inclusiveness of the huge Earth. I saw myself only stopping to listen to others' stories, shooting-the-shit with family and friends. I was traveling alone. I was taking many different things that were not my own. God's world, The Mystery.
Sometimes, though, I really think about having a permanence on Earth. A grasp for assurance that will exist in 2 days, 5 months, or 10 years from now.
A Home. Home is many places. Where I was born is not one of those, yet it is. Home can be a place of memory, experience, conversation, or all three in haphazard flux and fluidity.
Home is inclusive. Its darkness overcome by Light, Christ, Goodness, Beauty or full-blown Emotion and Feeling. Home is a place where friends and family live. Places of short-term occupation and those places' fellow occupants. Home is today.
You always have a home at the Shooks! : )
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