both hubby and I felt like visitors. We don't live there anymore. Maybe
because there are two of us, both from similar culture and transplanted
together, that our new home really feels like home. I would say home is
where your dreams come true.
Bright Blessings,
Kim
At 02:49 PM 2/9/2005, you wrote:
IMHO, every traveller eventually goes home, because it is the only place
that really makes sense. Every place is delicately different from every
other place. But, in my struggles with languages while travelling, I was
always surprised to find the meaning of the translation is always so banal.
No new mysteries. Interesting new people, with the same take on the same
stories.
How can this exist, I donno. This insight about your wife, Derek, really
rings for me, regarding the relationships I have attempted in other
countries. There's harmony, and at the same time, there's a tiny place
where nobody else can go. This must be a species thing, or a primordial
DON'T MIGRATE thing, it's deep, anyway, not logical. Humans are gregarious,
but they don't really adapt well.
Jesse
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Date: Tue, 08 Feb 2005 10:14:58 +0000
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [Biofuel] U.S., Islam, and Religion
>
> Hi Robert,
>
> Sorry I was confused as to whose sister was whose!
>
> Just one further comment along these lines. I've been married now for
about 20
> years. We get along pretty well and I think we have a good understanding of
> what makes each other tick. BUT, sometimes I think my wife can run into
> someone from her hometown whom she has never seen before and know more
about
> him in the first five minutes and what he is thinking that she does
about me
> after all these years. And, vice versa. There is just such a deep common
> proverbial understanding on so many issues when they have the same
background.
> I wouldn't have believed it if I hadn't experienced it myself.
> Derek
> -------------- Original message from robert luis rabello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> --------------
>
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>>> Hi Luc,
>>>
>>> As I believe you said that your sister was thinking of moving to
Europe from
>> her homeland for a bit of fresh air
>>
>> Uh, Derek, that would be MY sister!
>>
>>> I might mention that I am a US expatriate. I've lived overseas now for a
>>> total
>> of fifteen years.
>>
>> I moved to Canada in 1992. It's been an enlightening experience to
>> live as a guest in someone else's country.
>>
>>> I am also married to a European, which leads to some interesting
>> (dis)harmonies as I constantly hear a European viewpoint in one ear
and a US
>> viewpoint in the other from my US family.
>>
>> It's nice to know I'm not the only one who experiences this
>> "disharmony". Sometimes, I'm astonished at the contrast in
>> perspectives, given that we live relatively close to one another,
>> speak the same language and share many cultural values. Some
>> Americans think that Canada is either one step away from communist, or
>> so very much the same that there are no significant differences
>> between the countries. There certainly ARE differences, but they are
>> subtle.
>>
>>> It has been an education and a valued one.
>>
>> Indeed!
>>>
>>> I would encourage her to go. It would be an adventure and an
education and I
>> don't think she would ever regret it. I know we haven't.
>>
>> She's been to Europe a few times already and really appreciates the
>> diversity of views and experience there. Europe is not without its
>> problems, however, and she's not naive. I would be sad to see her go,
>> only because she would be very far away, and at times, she seems like
>> the only thinking person in my entire family.
>>
>> robert luis rabello
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