I will be back in California in eleven days. It will have been the longest span of time i have ever spent outside the state, not including the first two years of my life. I miss it like it is a person, the shape of the roads, the fengshui of certain intersections, the way the geography shifts and merges. I miss california trees, too, redwoods and valley oak and jacaranda (north to south). Maybe it is also that so much of italy is reminiscent of California ... Or vise-versa. I am happy to be here but i will also be very happy to be home, back in the familiar shape of things.

Home home home home