I am going home next week. This is the time for making lists and feeling like I am in two places at once, and therefore nowhere. It’s stressful and bittersweet.

The latest episode of Call the Midwife opened with this meditation from Sister Monica Joan:

Everyone knows that birds migrate, but not which country they believe to be their home. The hard, hot cloudless climate of the south or the fragile gray-white warmth of our own climes. But perhaps the birds are simply lucky. They have the best of both worlds.