You make a prodigal return to your hometown after years of abandonment. In that time, everything about you changed until you completed a 360, reverting to exactly who you were when you left this place. Determined to make a name for yourself in the real world, you admonished your former family and faith. Like so many others of your generation, you found that the things you were taught to hope for didn’t really exist. It turned out that everything you thought signified the real you – your politics, gender, ethnicity, race – only left you feeling cold and alone. These labels, so empowering when you first discovered them, now left you gasping for air. After years of vacant, directionless wandering, you swallowed your pride and returned to the only home you’d ever known.
Month: November 2019
The Return
You have to return to the house where they live. You didn’t want to, and you searched for every method of avoiding it. Trying to convince others to go there on your behalf was impossible. For some reason, you realized that this would have to be something you do on your own. Little did you know, you’d end up going there twice in two days. The place you promised to never see with your own eyes.
Mt.Angel 