"눈앞에 생생히, 끝없이 퍼져가는 파노라마. 그 시골길, 그 산골길, ..."

본인의 고향도 바로 한중님것과 같은 "시골길"과 "산골길"이 였죠.
고향이라는것에는 두가지 요소가 있는것 같습니다.
하나는 고향의 자연환경 (산, 물, 길...), 또 하나는 인간적 환경 (친구, 가족, 이웃...)
이제 돌아가 보면, 자연은 거의 그대로 있어도 인간들은 모두 사라지고 없더군요.
그래서 그런지, 이제는 텅 빈 고향 같더군요.

그러고 보면, 고향은 이제 마음속에만 남아있는것이 아닐가합니다.
마음속에서는 텅 빈곳이 아니고, 아직도 꽉 차있는 고향입니다.
그래서 그런지, 잊을려 해도 잊기 힘들고. 돌아갈수 없는줄 알지만 돌아가고 싶지요.
본인의 마음과 많이 동감입니다.

Thank you, our webmaster,
As soon as I put this on, our area was hit by a storm with an 80 mph wind,
knocking out our power line and cable line so that we still have no power, no phone, no TV and no computer.
I am using my office computer today.
Thank you for your kind comments and identifying with the feeling I had.

We must be having some unusual weather patterns here and there.
Are we paying the due for our human crimes against the nature?
It may be about time the nature tries to tell us something.

Hoping your civilized life returns quick....

I agree with you in that we humans may have been doing bad things against nature too long.
We got our power and other civilized life back today after 5 days without.
I am happy I get to watch US Open now. Thanks for your concern, Web Master.

"I would like to remember more, so that my own little history could be a book to reflect on and
learn from. I don't believe that my life is a long row of randomly chained incidents and accidents
of which I am not much more than a passive victim. No, I think that nothing is accidental
but that God molded me through the events of life and that I am called to recognize his molding
hand and praise him in gratitude for the great things he has done to me."

Henri Nouwen (from "The Genesee Diary")