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Quote for Today  July 8,  2012


“But why had he always felt so strongly the magnetic pull of home, why had he thought so much about it and remembered it with such blazing accuracy, if it did not matter, and if this little town, and the immortal hills around it, was not the only home he had on earth? He did not know. All that he knew was that the years flow by like water, and that one day men come home again.”  




Thomas Wolfe, You Can’t Go Home Again 


Painting on top: Early Sunday Morning [1930] by Edward Hopper, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.


Questions: 


Do you have a memory of the feelings and surprises you thought and felt when you went back home again after leaving that place many years ago? Ask another this question and see if they ask you your memories as well.


Did places feel so much smaller?


Compare the difference between someone who grew up in one place their whole early life with someone whose family moved a lot - because of being in the military or because of job shifts.