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Back home. Aurora far away, Ruth and Gabe faraway, the mountains, far away. \u00a0Here the garden is close, the bees, Kate, the dogs, the city. \u00a0Home.<\/p>\n
Each time I go to Denver a piece of me wants to stay. \u00a0The mountains, the grandkids, a hip urban scene. \u00a0And yet all of me wants to come home. \u00a0To come here where my friends are, where our home and land is. \u00a0Where I’ve lived for the last 42 years. \u00a0Where my adult memories are.<\/p>\n
This American dislocation creates problems for families. \u00a0My sister in Singapore. \u00a0Brother in Saudi Arabia. \u00a0Son in Denver. \u00a0Son in Georgia. \u00a0Everybody knows long distance relationships are tough. \u00a0When they’re this spread out, as many are, it makes holding the family together a bigger, and more important, challenge.<\/p>\n
The humidity. \u00a0Home. \u00a0The mosquitoes. \u00a0Home. \u00a0The lakes. Home. \u00a0The north. Home. \u00a0Home takes all these things geography, climate, weather, friends, family, memories, politics, art and wraps them up in a complex package of which we are an integral part. \u00a0That’s how we know where home is.<\/p>\n
It may seem pedestrian in a global age to prefer the particular and the local, but I do. \u00a0And have. \u00a0A Midwesterner raised and now an Upper Midwesterner, I’m happy here.<\/p>\n
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