Thursday, January 24, 2008

Home as a place

I spent some of today looking out at this place from the other side of my dirty car windows, passing abandoned loading docks, upstart high-rise condos, old warehouses, getting tossed around by cobblestones and potholes, seriously asking myself if I could ever leave this place.

And if home is really people, then the answer is yes.

It's a different proposition from coming back, granted (that's a must, just because these aesthetics of chaos have become somewhat of a resting place for me for over two decades)...

But yes, I can leave this place.

But then, if home is people, can I leave these people?

Its distance, that gives me grief, and turns my life into a balancing act.

1 comment:

gyra said...

people are portable. don't forget that part.