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Home is where the heart is, right?

I shall be home. Some day.  But I'll keep my distance from the pachyderm.  With a  Swedish Model (Miriam Ilorah) providing the sights and a Senagalese composer and singer (Baaba Maal) providing the vocals... home is a hard thing to figure out.

When up is down and down is something else

I am constantly amazed at how often I forget what life is really about and how truly random things are. People and places that once meant everything to you one day stop being so. Sometimes, it is because newer things fill up your time and space. A new job, new surroundings, new friends. Other times, its a change in life. Like your friends having kids. Or moving away. Or they stop keeping in touch. Or they move on. Whatever the reason, one fine day you wake up and realise that you've no longer thought of that person, place or things in a while. Where one day, you raced home to go play in the yard with them, now, you no longer need to. You speak to people every day for 10 years of your life and then life changes. You stop talking or seeing each other, summers go by, you buy new shoes, clothes, cars. The change is so gradual that you you have it in the back of your mind. Eventually, you forget about it and move on. And then one  day, many aeons later, you find a reason to see this p