Please note that this and the post that will follow concludes riding the waves, a tale about being home in the world by freda karpf - I hope you enjoy each bit and feel free to start at the top and read through to the end. riding is currently available on Amazon Kindle. Thanks for reading and doing good.
Nostos is the Greek word for homecoming,
the idea of returning home from a long journey. Nostos can also mean ‘Welcome
Home.’ There are many ways to return
home, to find your center, to go to the place where you belong. Sometimes you
just have to turn around and walk the path back. And sometimes even that is a long
journey.
~
Tomorrow, if the time and tide is right,
Mrs. Scattergood will go riding the waves. She would like to believe that
Barry, in some other reality, is watching the snow come down while he's having
a cigar on top of the mountain. It’s his
New Year’s Eve dream. He’s up in Vermont, he just had a good meal with his
wife, and he’s standing in the doorway of the cabin doing his “Sweetheart”
Humphrey Bogart routine. All he says is
“Sweethaaaaaaaart.” Then he bellows the cigar from his end while the flame is
pulled against the cold into the tobacco.
And he listens to the snow coming down.
~
Barry would phone her now and then from
the road broadcasting his philosophy between service calls. He decided that a life review was critical to
reach his goals. He began to do them every six months. But after his first life
review he thought it prudent to do them more frequently so he switched to every
three months.
~
Mrs. Scattergood’s life review came
unexpectedly when Barry died and Baubo showed up in her kitchen. Today was an odd day in her life. It was full of wonderment, evolutions of
grief and the short inhalation that comes from resolve. She took a step toward home and a step back
into the world. She’s never going to
stop being who she is in the world but she was different than before.
from
a river in the ocean (7), the end of riding the waves by freda karpf
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