Like a roasted bell pepper, you’re done: well-cooked, charred on the outside, burnt, spent. But on the inside, hidden within the veil of life’s fire-burner, you are soft and ready—ready for more. It doesn’t come all that easy though. After the months, weeks, or often only the days of travel, you return home to the accustomed life once left behind, and there, piled with new baggage you thought you were ready to unpack, you find yourself overloaded with a new beginning. And despite how many times you attempt to escape from this, seeking the bliss of freedom discovered upon the open road, mixed within the world’s vast cultures—leaving, returning, leaving, returning—you are met face to face time and again with this long winding path of returning home. It stares at you. It tempts you. Upon returning,
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