Everyone has memories, good and bad, of where they grew up. If the memories are good, it’s tempting to go back. However, you cannot go home again.
Nonsense? Think about it.
“Tell Me Three Things”
“Tell me Three Things” by Julie Buxbaum is my latest reading book. Josie, still grieving the death of her mother, has been uprooted, moved from a middle class Chicago neighborhood and school to Beverly Hills with a new stepmother and stepbrother and a posh private school. Talk about a tough learning curve.
Of course Josie is homesick, wants desperately to go home. After two months, she is given the chance to go home for a weekend. And in two months, everything has changed. Her best friend has a new best friend and a boyfriend. She no longer fits in, isn’t part of things there.
You can find my 5 star rating and a review of this book on my Goodreads page.
You Cannot Go Home Again
I grew up in southern California. People sometimes ask if I would ever want to move back. My answer is that my California doesn’t exist anymore.
I remember open meadows between Los Angeles and San Diego. There were grape vineyards with grapes laid out on paper between the rows during harvest. The beaches were empty of people during week days. A dairy with real cows and a bottling plant was a few miles away from my home.
None of that is there now. Houses and people have replaced all of it. Even my school, when I visited a year after graduating, was an alien place.
“The Carduan Chronicles”
My little Carduans are stranded 6,000 light years or so from their home. They have no means of ever going home.
How would you react if, suddenly, you were cut off from friends, family, home? These 60 Carduans are trying to cope with this while planning and creating a new life in an alien place.
For them the phrase you cannot go home again has taken on a terrible meaning. Yet life goes on. It changes, it takes on new dreams and new relationships.
You may not be able to go back, but you can create a new home.