“When you are a displaced person, and when you are longing for that place and you cannot visit it, that place becomes more than just a stone or mountain, it becomes like a beloved person. You want to kiss it, and lie down on it and feel the energy from the earth.”
Anton Troianovski & Carlotta Gall, After War Between Armenia and Azerbaijan, Peace Sees Winners and Losers Swap Places, N.Y. Times (Nov. 15, 2020).
I wonder how many Americans have such an attachment to place.
We've been here so little time, And move so much, And it's such a big country, With so many different soils.
But some do.