Home? Which Way Is That?

Home? Which Way is that?Going home: The very words have a special American resonance, a complex reverberation involving the emotions as nothing else ever does. They immerse the mind in shadow and substance, myth and reality and, over all, the tricky maunderings of memory, the unstoppable insult of time. Cutthroat time.It had been seven years since I had returned to the place of my birth and five of the six visits before that had been for family illnesses or burials, sanctified by Christian servi...