Zugunruhe

"It's the genetically determined activity known as Zugunruhe, migratory restlessness, that controls migratory behavior in birds, making even caged birds turn, fluttering, dancing, towards the direction in which they know the should be going"
- from "Corvus A Life with Birds" by Esther Woolfson given to me this year as a birthday gift from my husband.

Moved again, here nearly a year now, I hunger to settle down but can't find the place. When I have, can't manage a way to live in those possible home-places. Perhaps by the ocean where the motion of the waves and tides would lull me; certainly in some mountain valley where the rush of weather and seasons would soothe. I carry the mountains with me: their peace in my mind, their contentment in my in my heart, a small rounded bit of their shining peaks in my pocket to remind me of the other two...