Milan and Homeward Bound..!
There’s no place like home
Well I say now home, home sweet home
There’s no place like home
Wherever you wander
There’s no place like home…
Elvis Presley
I hear Elvis singing and tears flow down my cheeks, I agree oh Elvis there’s no place like home! I remember all to well a few years ago; I’d gone to spend a month in Europe. It had been an exciting trip and I’d made many friends and visited places that still make me hold my breath as they flash onto my inward eye. But when I boarded the Alitalia flight back home, there was an incredible childlike ecstasy like nothing I’d ever experienced before. I actually felt like dancing on the plane to the amusement of many nuns and clerics who had boarded the plane at Milan. Yes, oh yes Elvis, there’s no place like home!
Did you know that the Arctic Tern, that lives about seven degrees south of the North Pole, leaves its home every year and flies all the way to Antarctica and back — some 23,000 miles in all.
The point I’m trying to make is that the bird returns home all of twenty three thousand miles, to its special place near the North Pole! It flies all that distance and returns to just the same spot it once left. I can hardly drive across town without getting lost — how does it do it? Twenty three thousand miles! But somehow, the Arctic Tern possesses the ability to fly halfway around the globe and return home every year.
And salmon: I’m sure you know the salmon leaves her little mountain stream as a fingerling and swims, perhaps hundreds of miles, to the ocean where she lives. Then, when it’s time to lay eggs, she swims back to her place of birth. She somehow finds just the right river, and all of the correct tributaries and streams and creeks until she arrives home. It’s the trip of a lifetime — one she may not survive. But she presses on, somehow knowing just the right paths to take along the way.
Like the Arctic Tern, the salmon possesses a built-in ability to find her way home. So it is with humans. We loaf, we roam, we wander but return home!
But as I think these thoughts I also know that to have such a home we want to return to we need to invest into it! Oh no, not designer tiles and marble, teak beds and fancy upholstery, I’m talking about love!
Plain simple love!
Build love into those walls, those rafters, let it soak into them bath tubs and sink into your fancy tiles and your heart will leap like mine when you board your plane homeward bound..!
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