News from The Mews: My response to a Facebook group discussion about missing home and emigrating .... on top of the great riches the USA has given me the greatest of these gifts was Sam. I get homesick often but......I cannot imagine living in a place where my home is a prison behind barbed wire and a constant fear of attack and intrusion. I love living in this great country - which might have its problems but what country doesnt? - which has given me so much. As it is, I worry constantly about my friends back home....their safety and that of their children. I mourn the loss of many loved ones whose graves I cannot visit but I move forward and discover new things to love about this place I now call home. Some things are constant the world over and I take my comfort in the smell of the rain in the high desert, the build up of clouds in the distance, the fresh ocean spray and the feeling of sand between my toes on the beach. I will always miss the sound of lions and hyena but I do appreciate the yipping of coyote. I love my close circle of friends here as much as I love my group back home. I choose to love my present situation and feel blessed when I stand on my terrace in the early hours of morning and see my friend the hawk riding the air currents....the moon is as bright as it was in Africa, so are the stars. After 23 years away from home ... I remember there was a time when I would dream I was back in Africa and would sob in those dreams. There was also a time when I did not feel at home here and yet I did not feel like I belonged there anymore. The adjustment was hard....made even tougher in the beginning by having no network...no corner cafe that was familiar, no place that I could go where I felt I belonged. I could not afford to travel home for the aftermath of my brothers suicide or for my moms death. Immigrating means inflicting a conscious tear in the fabric of who you are.....but you build upon that. I miss South Africa on levels I could never have imagined before but this is my home now and I embrace it ...warts and all! xoxo
Posted on: Sat, 27 Sep 2014 15:00:41 +0000
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