soozphotoz: Sunday Scribblings

30 April 2006

Sunday Scribblings - Where I Live

my cottage is safe
i prefer to dwell outside
with crimson blossoms

The photograph was taken, alas, not outside my own home but in the Aran Islands, Ireland. The full topic of this week's Sunday Scribblings is Why I Live Where I Live.

After reading several other posts by the Sunday Scribblings troupe I finally figured out how to answer this question in a way that is a little less cryptic than my haiku attempt. I didn't know what to write at first because I couldn't really put a finger on how I really felt about where I live or why I here. What I discovered through the writings of others is that it doesn't matter so much to me where I live as long a I can leave there from time to time to discover new places. My husband is the one with the Irish roots but I am the one with the traveler's blood and inherited it from my father.

Some of my most precious childhood memories are watching my father pour over road maps as though they were the Dead Sea Scrolls weeks before our yearly summer vacation. Also the entire time I was growing up, we subscribed to National Geographic magazine which of course presented a world of possibilities each and every month. So I was destined to be an explorer through both nature and nurture (it's always nice to say, "It's not my fault").

So I suppose for me it isn't so much a question of where I live, but where am I going. And why? Because there is so much out there to explore.

Apr 30, 2006 7:14:31 AM | Sunday Scribblings

12 Comments

Well, I see that I am not the only one who is so compelled to comment on your SUnday Scribbling.. I did check it out per your suggestion and have every intention of actually doing it..For starters I actually have thought about the question and that is the first step after all!! I had the same trouble..I'm not sure how I feel about where I live, or even where I grew up..I am not particularly attached to either place, which is weird.. ITs a topic that deserves more thought that's for sure...I appreciate where your thoughts brought you..to where you are going..I feel similar in a different sort of way..I always feel like there is somewhere else that I am meant to be...not where I currently am..OK this is turning into my own blog entry!! Maybe for tomorrow?

Posted by: Emily Deisroth | 02 May 2006 at 17:23