Hello Goodbye

For September 13th 2007
  
I’m leaving for London tomorrow. After 5 months at home. And after 21 years of living in a subcontinent that’s full and rich and intimate and noisy and smelly in a way that no other continent can be. I’m both hopeful and nervous. London, Birmingham, Glasgow…these have been vacation homes for years [...]

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Yesterday I went to the house where I grew up… where we all grew up: my father, his siblings, the three of us. The women grew up there too, in a sense. They married men they loved and came new and unsure and grew into strong, loving, whole women here. I took my journal and [...]

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