Lovely post 🙏 I always said that f I could afford it one day, I would like to go back and live in the city where I was born, and from where we moved from when I was age 3. My grandmother continued to live there until she died when I was age 21, and after that, 15 years passed until I went back. I loved going back, and it still felt like home, but I realised that as much as I loved it, I didn’t crave living there anymore. I’d changed, and my sense of time and place had changed. It was cathartic to come to that realisation.
That’s so interesting. It’s funny isn’t it, how we hold a place in our head as a static thing, even while knowing that really nothing escapes change! And going back never feels the same if we are shifting in our own lives….
So thoughtful, your reflections. All the ways we mark time, measuring ourselves against place and experience and our former selves…we are more fluid than I ever imagined. The sea is awash with symbols….
"To stop and notice how far we have all come" a phrase to treasure.
Thank you Kathryn!
Lovely post 🙏 I always said that f I could afford it one day, I would like to go back and live in the city where I was born, and from where we moved from when I was age 3. My grandmother continued to live there until she died when I was age 21, and after that, 15 years passed until I went back. I loved going back, and it still felt like home, but I realised that as much as I loved it, I didn’t crave living there anymore. I’d changed, and my sense of time and place had changed. It was cathartic to come to that realisation.
That’s so interesting. It’s funny isn’t it, how we hold a place in our head as a static thing, even while knowing that really nothing escapes change! And going back never feels the same if we are shifting in our own lives….
So thoughtful, your reflections. All the ways we mark time, measuring ourselves against place and experience and our former selves…we are more fluid than I ever imagined. The sea is awash with symbols….
How lovely. And encapsulating the joy of caring that goes alongside the hard work is never easy but you manage it here x