TRAVELING & CHANGE

Where we are by Gerald Locklin

"I envy those

who live in two places:

new york, say, and london;

wales and spain;

l.a. and paris;

hawaii and switzerland.

there is always the anticipation

of the change, the chance that what is wrong

is the result of where you are.

i have

always loved both freshness of

arriving and the relief of leaving.

with

two homes every move would be a homecoming.

i am not even considering the weather,

hot

or cold,

dry of wet:

i am talking about hope."

New places and new things bring out something in us. There is a certain FREEDOM and RELEASE that encircle us and push us to be more than we are or were. To become something NEW or DIFFERENT, one must accept the fact that one must change, grow, and expand. One night when I was in San Francisco, I was looking out over the city with the Golden Gate bridge to my right and a full moon in the sky. I was blown away by the feelings I had. I did not feel alone, I did not feel unimportant, I did not feel insignificant. I did feel the spring of possibilities, the capabilities of my dreams, and the desire to make a change. I have LEARNED that to find yourself you have to take a piece of of everything and everyone you experience and make it a new part of you. In the movie The Motorcycle Diaries the main character states that, "You have to let the world change you, then you can change the world." Sometimes the world can appear all too big for us to handle, but the beauty and magnificence of experiencing it should overpower those fears. So I pray that I will continue to seek adventure, seek new people, seek change, but mostly seek LOVE.