I think that I know what you meant by those thoughts, Dean.
I have difficulty returning to my old stamping grounds, as all of them are
abroad. I've been back to my old boarding school, a Catholic monastery called
Downside in Somerset, but I was brought up in Arabia and India. I lived in
Aden and Mukalla, both of which are now in Yemen. I've been back to Bahrain,
after the first Gulf War, but it looked completely different and it is now
politically very unsavoury.
So, it's just as well that 'you cannot return home . . .' – for me.
Chris
On 15 Aug 14, at 16:37, Dean Hansen <hanse112@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> After a trip to southern MN from noon to 6 PM, I stopped in my "old
> neighborhood" and looked about. Everything
> looked the same here--the sliding hill, the homes, the trees, everything.
> This was about dinner time on September 11,
> 2001. Everything I remembered from my youth was just as I had left it a
> half century earlier. But the rest of the world
> had been turned upside down. IIRC, "You Can't Go Home Again" was a George
> Orwell book.
--
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