Tips For Going Home...

Don't panic. Don't stare out the window for eight hours of silent scenery, wishing you weren't moving at all. Don't play Joni Mitchell as you unpack the boxes and suitcases that seem to have made it back more intact than you. Don't sob when you're confronted with a million memories of the place you left. Don't find comfort in this becoming new normalcy. Don't get over what has happened to you. Don't forget it. Don't let it go. Let it become a part of you, even though it seems to have left a terrible hole. This is significant and will continue to be so for as long as it is remembered. God, don't let me forget.