I arrived "home" from Hawai'i about 3 PM today (having left Honolulu at 7:20 PM Tuesday night). Hawai'i has become a wonderful spiritual home for me.
Tonight, I'm in Chatham, where my family warmly welcomed me home to the rectory - especially 'the four-leggeds' who were so happy to see me walk in the door they practically wagged themselves into a stupor.
I'm home tonight and heading off to Llangollen bright and early in the morning - the place where I feel most "at home."
If this doesn't make too much sense, that's because home is less a matter of location and more a matter of the heart.
Also understand, please, that I'm working on about 4 hours sleep - sitting at an ever-so-slight tilt in a very small, poorly padded airplane seat which was located right in front of one of the lavatories (so, about every 10 minutes or so, I awakened to hear: "WOOSH!" - whether I needed to hear it or not).
Here are pictures of my beloved Lenny and CoCo.
I'm home wherever they - and Ms. Conroy - are.
Lenny, the Surfer Dude with an attitude
CoCo, the Surfer Dudette, with our daughter, Julie
"Finally, I suspect that it is by entering that deep place inside us where our secrets are kept that we come perhaps closer than we do anywhere else to the One who, whether we realize it or not, is of all our secrets the most telling and the most precious we have to tell." Frederick Buechner
Come in! Come in!
"If you are a dreamer, come in. If you are a dreamer, a wisher, a liar, a Hope-er, a Pray-er, a Magic Bean buyer; if you're a pretender, come sit by my fire. For we have some flax-golden tales to spin. Come in! Come in!" -- Shel Silverstein
2 comments:
Glad you're home safe and sound, if more than a bit "flushed" - ouch, now stop that. Never mind.
Looking forward to some quality time with in RB. I miss Ms. Conroy.
The Boa awaits...
You have voicemail from others who wish the same. It would be such fun.
Nice dog pictures.
I am going to ask my guardian if I can get a swell shirt like the one Lenny is wearing. I think I could surf too.
Love,
Rowan
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