There is so much I want to say but simply don't have the words. The air is electric. Each moment that passes by both stretches on for miles and flashes by in an instant. Ten years I've been away. Ten years I've yearned for the shores of home and been unable to reach them. But that wait is drawing to a close. No longer will I be stuck among the dirt and desolation. No longer will I have to struggle with a culture I cannot adapt to. I am finally going to breathe where my heart beats.

My worries at setting out on this journey with next to nothing fall away at the thought of simply being there. I bear no illusions about living the perfect life.. indeed things will most likely be far more difficult. But challenges are so much easier to overcome when they are of a variety you choose.

More than anything else I'm looking forward to the journey. Before the inevitable problems come in, before the yearning for what was invariably brought on by change. Not just change, massive change. A shift in the tectonic plates of my very fate. But before that there will be nothing but me, the open road, and the promise of what lies to come. An arduous journey to test my endurance and mettle. A symbolic battle I would gladly fight a hundred times over to be able to say something I have not felt for almost half my life.

I

am

home

Indeed you are,,

Beautiful

Bea-U-ti-Ful!!!

Welcome home...