Empty skies.

[bladespark]

I was at work today and I stopped to read a book. It's rather expected on slow days, since they like the staff to be familiar with all the chidren's books there. It was a book called "I'm in Charge of Celebrations," and it was about a girl who lived in the desert, and would laugh when people asked if she was lonely there.

I've thought a lot about the desert lately, and reading that made me realize, I'm homesick. I miss the real desert so much. Where I live now is still technically desert, but there's smog during the day and at night you can't see the stars becuase of the city lights. And when I hike the hills here there are always human footprints before me.

I want to live many places. I want to live in SanFrancisco, to travel the world, to go back to Ireland and maybe live there again for a while. But in the end I want to go back to the desert. It's the place I really think of as home, where the sky is a perfectly empty blue and the stars are brilliant at night.

Someday...

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[justplainbob.livejournal.com]

Mrr...I knwo how you feel.

Wanderlust is a...difficult...thing, especially in this day and age, where it's just a pain to keep travelling, always on the move. Well, until you're retired and you can travel around in your RV or something.

And, to tell you the truth, I'd rather my forests and streams than the desert plains. :p