It's odd.

[cyrano]

It's not seeing friends again. It's not driving the stretch of 101 that I took to work pretty much every day for five years. It's not familiar places, old haunts, or food.
It's a banged up saucepan sitting the dishwasher--scraped, beaten, clinging to life, having survived the trip down I-5 with me to California in the first place, as one of my few possessions that made into the back of the pickup truck on that wet El Nino-enthralled arrival day because I knew that cooking my own food was going to be key to survival in this new place.

That's what first says to me "This is the life you left behind."

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[kirbyk.livejournal.com]

It's odd, what sticks with us.

I'll always miss the bay area in a way I don't miss other places I've lived. It's where I became an adult, and it's always home to me.

Maybe someday I'll live there again.