Monday, May 02, 2011

Home stretch

May.  The month I leave Guatemala and head back to Oregon.

I'm scared, depressed, and anxious.  Of course I want to see my friends and family, but Guatemala has been home for nearly a year.  I know it's going to hurt to break off all the little green tendrils I've grown out and started wrapping around this place.

I know how to live here.  My responsibilities are short-term.  I've never lived on my own in the US.  I have to make long-term decisions.  Crap.



There's a pomegranate tree in my backyard here.  I don't think the fruit will be ripe before I leave.  
Wasn't it Persephone who ate a pomegranate and couldn't leave?

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