Comments on: Dreaming Home http://www.zephyr98.com/2009/07/dreaming-home/ Translated from the English Mon, 23 Jan 2012 14:41:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Kurt http://www.zephyr98.com/2009/07/dreaming-home/comment-page-1/#comment-53 Kurt Sat, 26 Sep 2009 00:16:37 +0000 http://kurtkremer.wordpress.com/2009/07/17/dreaming-home/#comment-53 I do know of Loren Eisley, swiped a couple of collections by him from my Dad years ago. First science writer/scientist I encountered who was a poet, even if in prose. I do know of Loren Eisley, swiped a couple of collections by him from my Dad years ago. First science writer/scientist I encountered who was a poet, even if in prose.

]]> By: Kurt http://www.zephyr98.com/2009/07/dreaming-home/comment-page-1/#comment-29 Kurt Mon, 20 Jul 2009 19:37:27 +0000 http://kurtkremer.wordpress.com/2009/07/17/dreaming-home/#comment-29 I lived there from 6-12, so really during the formative years of my childhood. It was always occupied after we sold it an moved until a few years before that last visit. It had been not just abandoned but reclaimed by the forest--not just the house and land, but every memory that went with it--while parcels all around had been purchased for the construction of mini estates. My father guessed that the owner was simply holding out and that any new owners would bulldoze everything. I fantasized for awhile about buying it and doing the same--well, short of building a villa. It really is a beautiful piece of property on the edge of miles of woods and wildlife that I imagine still exists. But maybe it's better that it's been swallowed up. I lived there from 6-12, so really during the formative years of my childhood. It was always occupied after we sold it an moved until a few years before that last visit. It had been not just abandoned but reclaimed by the forest–not just the house and land, but every memory that went with it–while parcels all around had been purchased for the construction of mini estates. My father guessed that the owner was simply holding out and that any new owners would bulldoze everything. I fantasized for awhile about buying it and doing the same–well, short of building a villa. It really is a beautiful piece of property on the edge of miles of woods and wildlife that I imagine still exists. But maybe it’s better that it’s been swallowed up.

]]> By: Eadwacer http://www.zephyr98.com/2009/07/dreaming-home/comment-page-1/#comment-28 Eadwacer Sat, 18 Jul 2009 16:27:55 +0000 http://kurtkremer.wordpress.com/2009/07/17/dreaming-home/#comment-28 Since we moved, on average, once every two years when I was a child, and multiple times during my time in the military, I don't actually have an ancestral home. I have fond memories of many of them, and periodically I fly over them via Google Earth. However, several of them no longer exist. The lot where our house in Lebanon was (Illinois, not the country) is now part of a small sectarian college campus. Our first home together in West Row, Mildenhall, Cambs, UK, has been replaced by what looks like a US style subdivision. For that matter, the dorm I lived in at SJSC, and its five companions, have all been torn down, rebuilt, replaced. I remember an author, Loren Eiseley (worth reading, you could wiki him), saying that for years he had mentally sat beneath the shade of the oak tree he and his father had planted decades earlier. When he finally visited the place, the tree had been cut down. Since we moved, on average, once every two years when I was a child, and multiple times during my time in the military, I don’t actually have an ancestral home. I have fond memories of many of them, and periodically I fly over them via Google Earth. However, several of them no longer exist. The lot where our house in Lebanon was (Illinois, not the country) is now part of a small sectarian college campus. Our first home together in West Row, Mildenhall, Cambs, UK, has been replaced by what looks like a US style subdivision. For that matter, the dorm I lived in at SJSC, and its five companions, have all been torn down, rebuilt, replaced.

I remember an author, Loren Eiseley (worth reading, you could wiki him), saying that for years he had mentally sat beneath the shade of the oak tree he and his father had planted decades earlier. When he finally visited the place, the tree had been cut down.

]]> By: Vandana Singh http://www.zephyr98.com/2009/07/dreaming-home/comment-page-1/#comment-27 Vandana Singh Sat, 18 Jul 2009 14:45:57 +0000 http://kurtkremer.wordpress.com/2009/07/17/dreaming-home/#comment-27 You've said a lot without saying much in this post. Reminds me of my grandfather's house in which we lived for some time while in the same town. Even though we didn't live there long it was home to me in the way that adults imagine the home of their childhood. I have never been back after my grandfather died and when I do go back to the house now owned by other people I am convinced it will be a surreal experience... You’ve said a lot without saying much in this post. Reminds me of my grandfather’s house in which we lived for some time while in the same town. Even though we didn’t live there long it was home to me in the way that adults imagine the home of their childhood. I have never been back after my grandfather died and when I do go back to the house now owned by other people I am convinced it will be a surreal experience…

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