Comments on: You Know You’re Home …

By: rosiero

rosiero — Sun, 17 May 2009 10:43:54 +0000

I guess you have to have the lows to appreciate the highs and vice versa. Hope it won’t be too long before you get another break away.

By: Tash

Tash — Fri, 15 May 2009 16:10:19 +0000

ps, I can even remember Mum, who didn’t really like England that much in the ‘old days’ being unsettled each time she got home. A huge part of that is leaving family (especially mums) behind…

By: Tash

Tash — Fri, 15 May 2009 16:08:47 +0000

Though I’m many miles away, feels like I’m in the same place… I know its lovely here, and when I’m home I tell myself, and my friends, that it is. But when I get here, oh how remote from normality it feels. Or maybe – what’s worse – is that being unable to talk to people, dealing with problems, in a foreign language, and feeling sometimes so very alone, is beginning to be normal, and the brief sojourns back home are the exceptions to the rule! Un, deux, trois…

By: reluctantmemsahib

reluctantmemsahib — Thu, 14 May 2009 11:14:16 +0000

Maternal – that’s very generous of you. Thank you. And kind given I can be most ungracious!

Thanks Expat Mum: that helps make me feel less … alone? bolshy? ungracious even? Thanks.

Moon Shadow. I do remember. Though perhaps only because music hit our growing up East African scene a long time after it hit anywhere else (lest I sound fearfully old!). And you’re right: wonderfully moonlit nights can cast fabulous shadows. I’m trying to be less reluctant! x

By: reluctantmemsahib

reluctantmemsahib — Thu, 14 May 2009 11:10:58 +0000

gaelikaa: thanks for dropping by. I do. Even if, as you say, its hard to get into. And out of!

Ah. Mr Sherman. Hello. How nice to see you. And you’re right: it’s all about trade-offs. Reminding myself of what I have gained helps assuage the emptiness at what I have given up.

By: carol

carol — Thu, 14 May 2009 07:29:16 +0000

Glad to read another post… was worried you had become ‘very reluctant!’ – I also noticed how bright the moon was the other night – if you walked outside you made a shadow… was that a song once ‘moon shadow’ – bit before my time though!!! Lots of love

By: Expat Mum

Expat Mum — Thu, 14 May 2009 02:57:04 +0000

It took me a long time to settle in the States, and I’m not sure that I have at all. The worst times however, are when I come back from England. Even though i always think a 6 week sojourn will sustain me till next year, it usually unsettles me all over again.

By: Maternal Tales

Maternal Tales — Wed, 13 May 2009 20:51:52 +0000

You write so so beautifully I just want to read more and more of your posts…Thankyou!

By: R. Sherman

R. Sherman — Wed, 13 May 2009 14:28:58 +0000

If there were only a way to have more “face to face” time along the opportunity to disengage and watch the sky alone when necessary. Alas, all of our lives are made up of trade-offs with us alternating missing one thing or another. You’ve seem to done pretty well at juggling things.

Cheers.

By: gaelikaa

gaelikaa — Wed, 13 May 2009 12:13:52 +0000

You live in a beautiful place. Even if it’s difficult to get there.