• uniquely-ironic said on Aug 23, 2009....

  I get it.  It's like a love of something that seems much older than the years you actually are.  Maybe (if you believe in multiple lives) you lived or worked on the sea.  Maybe it's ancestral memory.  Was your family in the business of going to sea?

• gingersoul said on Aug 23, 2009....

  Quiet.....you have no idea how deeply and completely i understand your longing....
  
  I can smell my sea even from here in the middle of  Texas....i can hear the seagulls cry.....i can see the shining crests of the waves on the horizon...   
  
  Its calling me, my home.
  
  I wish you to come back to your "home" too.
  

• MissMimi said on Aug 23, 2009....

  I think this is fascinating, quilty.  I sure do understand.  I have always felt great peace when I am down south, in the Great Smokey mountains or the Blue Ridge mountains.  I'm going down to Tennessee in October for a quick visit, and I can't wait. 
   
  I hope one day, your soul finds its peace in the Pacific Northwest, my friend.

• wombat said on Aug 23, 2009....

  I can understand it, too.  I feel that way about Ireland, and I've never been there, and probably will never get to go.  But something about it feels like what I've been missing my whole life--like the one thing that could "fill that empty place" and heal that pain in my soul.
   
  I don't know for sure why places can do that, but I believe in "ingrained memories" and imprints on our lives from the past.  Maybe you are feeling your "home" place.  I hope you get to go back again, and soak up even more of the adventure next time.

• quietone said on Aug 24, 2009....

  Uni ~ As far as I know there are no family memebers (at least in this life) that had a life even by the sea.  I know you "get it" by the pictures you take, and I enjoy them so much, the next best thing to being right there.  I can smell, taste and hear the ocean in your photos....... thanks for that!   :)
   
  ginger ~ yes, and when you are right there visiting.. its that deep feeling of fullfillment and comfort, your soul is dancing.  :)
   
  meems ~ Oh, how exciting to be going "home" to the smokey mts.  I am surprised, really that others feel this passion about certain places like that.  There has to be something to it that we just don't see in this chapter of our life.  I hope your soul will dance with delight while you are visiting in TN my friend.
   
  Wombie ~  ah, Ireland, how beautiful.  It has to be some past memory of another time, another life, why else would we feel this strongly?  yes, when I am at "home" in the pacific NW in or near my ocean, I feel free of everything and my heart is overflowing with joy, peace and love.   :)  I don't feel this strongly on the Atlantic side so go figure?

• woman said on Aug 24, 2009....

  Lovely post Quiet. I know your feelings because I have them about Guatemala. There is always a part of me there. The first time I went there I simply "recognized" the place. I hope that you can return very soon. Again, beautifully written.

• Hegemone said on Aug 24, 2009....

  That's really neat and profound.  That inner peace and longing without really knowing why, but just that it's there and you can't ignore it.  I hope you get to go back 'home' too someday.  :-)

• Me-Myself&I said on Aug 24, 2009....

  what a nice post. hmm it must be wonderful to feel "at home" somewhere. i have been many places, all of them i never wanted to leave. each place had its special wonder. anyway, i hope you follow that longing of yours and it takes you to your home. :~)

• the_infernal_optimist said on Aug 24, 2009....

  It's not a place on the ocean that calls to me, but I completely understand that soul-deep longing, that sense of belonging somewhere that you have no logical reason to feel, but that's just a *truth* inside even so.
  
  ~Infernal
  

• PAPERBACKWRITER said on Aug 24, 2009....

  
  I will borrow, woman´s words and say, simply beautiful and well written emotions, dearest quiet <3.
  
  
  

• quietone said on Aug 24, 2009....

  woman ~ I could feel the same longing and love you have for Guat. in your writing as well.  It just shows.  I like it......... a lot.
   
  hege ~ yes, the fact that I can't ignore it, and sometimes I find my mind wonders there a lot.  It is always there not far away, and I will go home some day.
   
  memy ~ I know I will get to spend many a day and evening watching my great NW ocean.. maybe when I retire.  but for now, I will go there in my minds eye and through the sights of photos of uni's I can see my ocean.
   
  infernal ~ there is no longical or biological reason why I feel this longing or belonging , but I sure do love that feeling when I am 'home'
   
  paper ~ my pretty little emotional butterfly....... your smile and your girls happy little faces says it all too.......  I just love it.

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