Saturday, April 2, 2011

Where is Home?



Man, where's the bus?
I gotta get home.
Les called last night and we're gonna meet at seven o'clock down at Rupsis Bar.

Home is a place to pass through on the way somewhere else that I need to be.

Nurse, nurse, Oh, Hi.
Thanks for coming in.
Is the paper work done?
The Doctor said I could go home today and the social worker said she's got the paperwork underway. Do you know if it's done? I really want to go home. You guys have been great. You know that. I wanna go home now though, soon .

Home is a place to rest, to meditate, to feel safe after traumatic surgery - a healing place.

At 745 a.m. I'm at St. Mary's in Fishkill, NY. I go into The Church building to use the facilities.
I also sit quietly in The Sanctuary. It is beautiful. It is silent. The sun streams in and shines softly on the stone walls, illumining the Crucifix, edifying The Divine Mother and the flowers around her. I like the silence, the stillness, the space, the Light of Life. It feels like a home.

Jesus said there will come a time when mankind worships God outside the buildings.

Edeleny, Hungary is 84 km from Mesokovesd, Hungary. They are in the Northeastern portion of Hungary, near Slovakia and the Ukraine. My Mom was born in Mesokovesd in 1920. Her Dad was a tailor. He'd also been a Huzsar, a cavalry soldier, in the Austro Hungarian Army in WWI. My Mom's great grandfather was caretaker of an estate in Edelny. She loved her home town and her schoolmates. She loved going to the mountains.

The family had two dogs in Mesokovesd. They lived in town and there was a tall wooden fence around the house. She said it was eight feet tall. I don't know about that. Seems kinda tall for what happened.

Which is, they went up to the mountains and left the dogs home in the care of a neighbor.
The story goes that the dogs jumped the fence and ran all the way to Edeleny and found Tillie, and Apa and Anna and Mommy. Can you imagine?

How did the dogs know where home was?
All they knew was they wanted to be with the people they loved.
And they risked their lives to get there, without any thought.

Where is my home?