The Adventure of Returning

We turn for home today, a ritual we have done over and over again from points all over the earth.  We turn north for Madrid, a two-day journey, and then fly away home on the third day.  It is a great blessing to go home, to have a home, a loved family, to know this is our bit of land, our piece of the earth the Lord has loaned us to grow old on.  My dad was a rolling stone, my mom always saying, “He can’t stay put for long”, and I am a lot like him, always wondering what's around that bend in the trail, over the next rise, at the top of the mountain.  But even so, going home is a great joy; to turn one’s face homeward is to know another adventure, the adventure of returning.  From southern Portugal.  lee

Our beloved Fair Haven from our new porch.  Taken the day
before we left.