Or, if you're an engineer, "Home is where your toolbox is."
2025-09-23 23:40:42
Bruce (Pete): "I vaguely recall a conversation a while back about relocating Israel to a carve-out in Baja California."
You would probably have a better (nothing like good, but better) chance selling it as a relocated Palestine.
2025-09-23 15:38:20
I can relate to the "can't go home again" simply because California has grown so dramatically since I was young. I grew up on a ranch 5 miles out of town. Now, that ranch, and everything for an additional 5 miles, is all houses.
It's not that I physically can't go there. I can. It's not just that the specific house we live in is no longer there, although it's not. It's that the open space that was all around is no longer anything like open.
I expect that the situation for people who can't even get back to the physical location, and the culture that was there, is far worse. But I at least have a glimmer.
"Home is where you hang your clothes."
Or, if you're an engineer, "Home is where your toolbox is."
Bruce (Pete): "I vaguely recall a conversation a while back about relocating Israel to a carve-out in Baja California."
You would probably have a better (nothing like good, but better) chance selling it as a relocated Palestine.
I can relate to the "can't go home again" simply because California has grown so dramatically since I was young. I grew up on a ranch 5 miles out of town. Now, that ranch, and everything for an additional 5 miles, is all houses.
It's not that I physically can't go there. I can. It's not just that the specific house we live in is no longer there, although it's not. It's that the open space that was all around is no longer anything like open.
I expect that the situation for people who can't even get back to the physical location, and the culture that was there, is far worse. But I at least have a glimmer.