welcome home

I miss it already—the green, the sunsets, looking up at the stars, the lushness of everything around. The people, the food—the food! I really do miss it all, and I appreciate it all the more that I’ve been away for so long.

Still, I know it will be waiting for me—in a lively stillness that keeps things well. I know it will all welcome me back with an embrace that says, “you never really left.”

I will hold onto it all—the memories and pictures, the love and warmth and laughter—until I live it again.

<3