0n (09 Sep 06) Janis Kracht wrote to Marc Lewis...

 JK> Hi Marc!

>>> Yep, just quiet I think.  Quite a good number of people here
>>> though.

>> Good show!  And good hearing from you, Janis!

>> Same here, Marc :)  Hope things are somewhat back to normal for
>> you?

 JK> > Well...  About as "normal" as I can make it - 210
miles away from my
 JK> beloved > home town of New Orleans.

 JK> That sounds so sad :(  I guess it's worse than trying to "go
home" if
 JK> you know what I mean.. "home" for me is still there, just as it was
 JK> (well changed in ways that I can't stand).. but for you and for so
 JK> many thousands of people home just is gone.. what a drag..


 News has it many of the New Orleans Katrina evacuees in Houston
 are staying put.

 I'm sold on: Home is where you make it- home.

 We just got back from a "family do" in our former home state, Western
NY (upstate western NY do be destinguished from that itty bitty by
comparison part called NYC)... The lush rolling hills.. felt, well...
STRANGE! And then strangly felt so good, surprsingly to get back
here- to Texas. I guess a new place grows on you after awhile.

It's the familiarity...
                       

 JK> > Lonesome as all get-out up here, though there are

 JK> aw..Know that feeling though :(


 Yeah me too, especially amid of crowd of kin who may as well be total
strangers. I was computer, message based derprived for six days! yow!
ALl the more reason to be glad to be back, home. My dogs are happy
too! Poor babiess had to spend the time in a kennel.

We appreciate each other more now. :) Cindy

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