Random thoughts
I've had an iv of Eggnog hooked up for about 3 days
now, and I'm slowly starting to relax.
On this Christmas eve, I wish I could have visited more relatives this trip. Its always a fine balance between the desire for rest and the desire to catch up with the people I haven't seen in a year or more.
I made a trip to our old homestead on thursday. I lived there for my first 17 years. It's so much a part of me that I physically feel it as I drive the roads home, every curve, every hill, stream, cabin. Due to financial difficulties, we had to sell it, a decision I fought with what little influence a 17 year old has over his parents. Even then I somehow knew how important it was, although the feeling of loss didn't set in till I was about 25. The most difficult part of this is seeing the place now. The new owners have turned the 32 acres of oak forest into a trailer park. When we bought the place, it was new growth, with most of the trees probably less than 30 years old in '91, but there were a half dozen or so ancient white oaks that I really valued. These are all gone now.
My wish has been to buy it back some day, as well as some of the neighboring land. Maybe then the animals would come back, and there would be some peace and quiet. I don't know if it's possible, but I would try to guarantee that the land would stay in the family and that it would be kept in decent shape. Then we would always have a place to go back to, no matter where we end up.
Erin
DT
On this Christmas eve, I wish I could have visited more relatives this trip. Its always a fine balance between the desire for rest and the desire to catch up with the people I haven't seen in a year or more.
I made a trip to our old homestead on thursday. I lived there for my first 17 years. It's so much a part of me that I physically feel it as I drive the roads home, every curve, every hill, stream, cabin. Due to financial difficulties, we had to sell it, a decision I fought with what little influence a 17 year old has over his parents. Even then I somehow knew how important it was, although the feeling of loss didn't set in till I was about 25. The most difficult part of this is seeing the place now. The new owners have turned the 32 acres of oak forest into a trailer park. When we bought the place, it was new growth, with most of the trees probably less than 30 years old in '91, but there were a half dozen or so ancient white oaks that I really valued. These are all gone now.
My wish has been to buy it back some day, as well as some of the neighboring land. Maybe then the animals would come back, and there would be some peace and quiet. I don't know if it's possible, but I would try to guarantee that the land would stay in the family and that it would be kept in decent shape. Then we would always have a place to go back to, no matter where we end up.
Erin
DT