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August 14, 2006
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These are excerpts from a poem I once wrote:
home
is it where you hang your hat
or where your heart is...
i only know to travel is to yearn
and i am always travelling...
In reality, I do not travel literally much at all. I do yearn a lot for home, though. I am beginning to understand that while this yearning may be significantly met here on earth, I make the concept of home into an idol if I believe it can be fully met in any earthly context. This is a hard truth to learn and accept.
Nonetheless, after a very nice time in the home of my brother and sis-in-law with three wee ones, who at this moment as I write are nestled all snug, in comfort and the care of their parents, who in turn are nested in the care of the Parent of them all, it was good to get back to my home. More importantly it was good to realize that it is my home, and in just a few minutes I will go into my soon-to-be-unmessy room, turn out the light, and nestle all snug myself, in the palm of the same good hands.
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Addendum
I dug up the poem from the post above, which was the ending to the long journey poem of which the first two bits appeared in Catapult not too long ago. This piece is about coming back to the U.S. after being away for a year. I have reworked it a little.
home
is it where you hang your hat
or where your heart is
or both?
what is this coming?
i do not know
feeling alien
amidst so much that is known
which pretends at newness
in these arms so long unknown
that i embrace in newness
of understanding
and finally
am i home?
i do not know
i only know
to travel is to yearn
and i am always traveling
Personal Growth or Lack Thereof | By jackdas | 11:52 PM
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OH MY LAND!!! THANKS FOR THE BOOK! I'm going to start reading it tonight! Yip and a skip to that!
Posted by: Heidi Vincent at August 16, 2006 1:55 PM
You are very welcome, Heidi. I hope you like it.
If anyone else wants to get in line to borrow "The Sacred Diary of Adrian Plass," let me know. I just got my copy from England last week. The shipping cost as much as the book, but it was worth every penny.
Posted by: Neil E. Das at August 16, 2006 2:49 PM
