tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5699989418747859369.post5666647307286934532..comments2023-09-12T08:00:29.447-07:00Comments on Strange Pilgram: new groundChristine Gramhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13783180729146518061noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5699989418747859369.post-6241370352667680232011-08-06T01:50:46.422-07:002011-08-06T01:50:46.422-07:00Interesting...these are the things I think I would...Interesting...these are the things I think I would ask myself, if I returned to the States (plus a whole lot of other weightier and potentially divisive issues, which I will politely ignore, here)...I've been in Italy for a long time, and now probaby would find myself a Stranger in a Strange Land, if I had to go back. If you're nostalgic for Italy, check out Sheila's http://italytutto.com/, it's very well done, and the tweets from my blog on and from Milan appear in the tweet box (when I write!). I hope that Sheila's blog helps you get through the Italy-separation angst.Starhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06350579051520505525noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5699989418747859369.post-38568593982756019422010-08-03T19:30:01.131-07:002010-08-03T19:30:01.131-07:00I'm glad you are finding the beauty, or re-fin...I'm glad you are finding the beauty, or re-finding it as the case may be.<br />After three years away this place is as foreign to you as Italy once was. I say embrace that with the same fervor. Face your fears, comment on the differences, wax poetic about the beauty.<br />Go find places you had not previously explored and share them with us. Light them all up with your fantastic smile and bring their stories back to your faithful readers.<br /><br />Wow, I will step off the soap box and push it back under the counter now.<br /><br /><3Kerihttp://www.mushingirl.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5699989418747859369.post-37432407678631712982010-08-01T14:36:47.529-07:002010-08-01T14:36:47.529-07:00Glad it finally found you. I ditched the stupid r...Glad it finally found you. I ditched the stupid radio songs a long time ago for books on CD. Such a better use and more entertaining in my car. I would highly recommend it for long commutes. Just get hooked up with your local library and start picking them out.Wild Childhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09653340334412641577noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5699989418747859369.post-83352552573941814312010-08-01T13:58:13.240-07:002010-08-01T13:58:13.240-07:00Welcome back, it does take a while to feel fully &...Welcome back, it does take a while to feel fully "here", thats why travel by boat makes more sense to me, it gives us time to adjust before we get to the new location.<br /><br />I heard we are having the coldest summer on record in SF. Don't know if thats urban legend or actual truth, but the cold has me grumpy.Brendahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00062037882359130530noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5699989418747859369.post-10109411037492578452010-08-01T13:30:19.382-07:002010-08-01T13:30:19.382-07:00welcome home, pilgram. i hope the ride gets easier...welcome home, pilgram. i hope the ride gets easier. i can certainly connect to your feelings. transitions are incredibly thorny territory.Kittyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15213518393810493720noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5699989418747859369.post-3534428136902532092010-08-01T00:11:27.523-07:002010-08-01T00:11:27.523-07:00Oh you both make me feel better. At least I still...Oh you both make me feel better. At least I still have my blog friends. I feel like that Sarah... in the worst moments I feel like I want to drive straight to the airport and get on the next plane the hell out of here. Everything that I never missed about being in the US is of course what I notice and what is driving me crazy. I am not giving myself time to enjoy what I love about it. I'm trying to see it as another new adventure but the physical familiarity, although skewed, keeps messing that up.Christine Gramhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13783180729146518061noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5699989418747859369.post-25457433284479322392010-07-31T08:30:49.574-07:002010-07-31T08:30:49.574-07:00it's painful going back, the anticipated famil...it's painful going back, the anticipated familiarity failing to materialize. Suddenly realizing that the "forrin" place you left had sneaked into your being to the point where, in retrospect, you wonder if the body snatchers had been at work while you weren't paying attention.<br /><br />It's one going somewhere expecting to feel like a fish out of water and reveling in the new and exciting. Altogether a different matter when instead of slipping back into familiar surf you find yourself gasping for air and not understanding why.<br />I'm not the best person to give advice, cos after the briefest coming home in the history of mankind, I ran away again, freaked out by my inability to breath. If I had to do it all again I think I might try to treat it as a move to the unknown, with time having taken the place of geography, and trick my brain into playing alone with a honeymoon period of discovery while I got my sea legs.TEFL Ninjahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13660756490115614438noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5699989418747859369.post-66528141336776235462010-07-31T07:09:16.395-07:002010-07-31T07:09:16.395-07:00...letting the days go by...
Hold on to those lit......letting the days go by...<br /><br />Hold on to those little moments and hopefully you'll be able to string them together into something bigger soon.Captain Dumbasshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02214826608461609241noreply@blogger.com