"It is indeed at home..."

 moon in the desert.....pronghorn in the forest...this female pronghorn liked to visit this meadow

i often wonder about the difference between the way someone who has been in the same place for a long time thinks compared to someone who is a nomad...the millions who are "displaced" on the planet earth are seeking a "place" but do they become more resilient to the stress of moving... when i hear about the syrian and turkish earthquake victims i wonder about the great Lisbon earthquake which destroyed that city and all the evidence of cities which were destroyed in the past...one of the theories which has been proposed about the many cities that seem to have been wiped out about 1100 BCE is that a volcano erupted a few years before and the sky was made too dark and the temperatures dropped and food crops could not grow and the starving populations decided to take the rich peoples food and the term "POLITICIDE" was used to describe the starving masses killing off the leaders and the upper-class who were eating but never did much work...and then these starving people got on boats and went to other cities and burned them to the ground until all the ancient cities were pretty much destroyed and the boat people came to be known as the "SEA-PEOPLE"...just a theory though...anyhow all through the recorded history of mankind cities came and cities went and civilizations became un-civil and people had to start from scratch...in one of the archeology magazines i read said that at one time there were large homes which seemed to eventually came to be divided in smaller apartments to accommodate more people and less wealthy people...i can see the benefit of sub-dividing some of the larger homes to make more room for people...or have less people...before politicide becomes the norm... "It is indeed at home that every man must be known by those who would make a just estimate either of his virtue of felicity; for smiles and embroidery are alike occasional, and the mind is often dressed for show in painted honor and fictitious benevolence." Samuel Johnson