There is a deep vulnerability to being without an address. I am very aware of this fact these days. "Where do you live?" People ask me all the time. And I can't say--because I truly am still "in transition" and I don't "live" anywhere. I mean, my books are in storage, for God's sake! A scholar whose books are not on a shelf within reaching distance is not living in that space. So I "stay" some places. Among friends and family--here and there. Really. It's not that bad. I'm attached to these people more than the "place."
© Valerie Bridgeman
October 25, 2013
(For Friday; written, but I forgot to push 'send')
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