I received an email from a college friend the other day. She's working in Spain these days. In her email, she vocalized how I have been feeling these past many months:
It's not that I've been sad really; it's more complex than that. In Spanish: añoranza. In English: yearning, longing. (I guess that's about right.) Recently, I've just felt a deep desire to be with you in the places I know...half way around the world. But that desire doesn't translate to my wanting to leave here. Some of you know what I mean when I say I wish I could be in more than one place at once. I wish my worlds could somehow converge without losing those idiosyncrasies of people, place and time that make them what they are.
-- Viola Wilbanks