Tip-Off #124 - Elsewhere

"… to arrive where we started/ And know the place for the first time." - T.S. Eliot

Dublin's Grafton Street, credit jamegaw via iStock

Living abroad, I did not miss home but found it. As the poet Philip Larkin put it:

Lonely in Ireland, since it was not home,
Strangeness made sense. The salt rebuff of speech,
Insisting so on difference, made me welcome:
Once that was recognized, we were in touch/
. . . To prove me separate, but not unworkabl…