I have returned
Aug. 4th, 2004 03:39 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ninevirtuesDriving back from the airport... I'm glad to be back. I want to see all my friends at once, to tell them all how much I've missed them.
The air and the light are different.... soft, wet air and hazy sunshine where I came from, clear and brilliant here-- with a pervasive sense of galvanized energy, drive, and ambition in the air. I've missed it. I stop and apply suntan lotion, hunt for sunglasses, press into service the baseball cap I find on the floor of the open jeep my friend has loaned me.
Driving down the freeway, I had the oddest sense of dislocation-- everything here is right where I left it; my friends still live here; life continues here as it did before, but I feel as though it should be different, and I see it with new eyes. I have changed radically, but that's not obvious to me until I return and find that I fit differently here.
The air and the light are different.... soft, wet air and hazy sunshine where I came from, clear and brilliant here-- with a pervasive sense of galvanized energy, drive, and ambition in the air. I've missed it. I stop and apply suntan lotion, hunt for sunglasses, press into service the baseball cap I find on the floor of the open jeep my friend has loaned me.
Driving down the freeway, I had the oddest sense of dislocation-- everything here is right where I left it; my friends still live here; life continues here as it did before, but I feel as though it should be different, and I see it with new eyes. I have changed radically, but that's not obvious to me until I return and find that I fit differently here.
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Welcome Back!!!
Date: 2004-08-04 05:58 pm (UTC)