Homecoming

By: lillipilli

May 31 2010

We went away to where I grew up. They liked it more than I imagined they would, the air, the quiet, the space. I, like the dweller of a city that I’ve become, felt the trees were closing in, and the spaces seemed too big. Like a tsunami the waves of big-city success have washed over this place too; paddocks are filled with pastel houses, roads are wider than ever before, there are super-barn-omatics galore. Everywhere we went, change, progress, change…until here, where land meets sea, man’s influence on the landscape is halted, the passage of time is slow, it is only the erosive force of nature that brings about change, and that change is not discernible. It was only here by the ocean, in this familiar place, that I felt at home again.