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Sunday, July 11, 2021

One Year Ago Today


Thomas Wolfe wrote

‘You can’t go home again’

~ and yet here I am


This past year has been filled 

with masks and distancing

isolating myself and Zooming


Walking on new paths around 

a lake instead of by the ocean

Free reigning rabbits instead of deer, arrogant Canada geese instead of prideful peacocks


One year ago today

I turned over my apartment keys,

said good bye to friends new and old


to return to my prairie home to

renew, rebuild relationships with 

precious family and dear friends.


“There is a kind of magicness about going far away

 and then coming back all changed.”

~ Kate Douglas Wiggin, New Chronicles of Rebecca


 

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