September 28, 2007
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The Daily News
1 I have a confession to make.
2 I'm a fan of Kid Nation.
3 I was cussing at the teevee last week, wondering once again who would watch that stuff, and I wound up on the edge of my seat as this little guy named Jimmy just started crying because he was homesick.
4 I think you sort of had to watch it to really appreciate that one.
5 There's something about a little guy being homesick that seems to flow through all of us.
Jimmy and another kid on Kid Nation.6 There's a home in every one of us, a place we love, and where we know love is, even if it's only a dream.
7 It's real.
8 And going home is the key to all of it.
9 I think if we all just take a look, we might just be somewhere that we wake up one morning and say to ourselves, "How the Hell did I get here? Who are these people? How in the world did I ever get here? I want to go. I want to go home."
10 And I saw that little guy just so lost and innocent, wanting to go home, wanting to have his own life back.
11 And when they finally let Jimmy go home, he made a beeline for the door.
12 Hmmmmm.
13 Maybe there's a little life lesson to be learned there somewhere.
14 I think about life sometimes and where we've all gone, how we've all grown and evolved, and moved to the place we find ourselves right now.
15 And to many, it's just fine. To many others, it's the beginning of a lifelong search for what was once called home.
16 There's an innocent sweetness to wanting to go home, a warmth that determines who we are and what we are about. Somewhere inside all of us there is a little kid wanting to go home again, wanting a return to the comfort and familiarity that seems so far removed.
17 There's a comfortable place somewhere in each of our hearts. It's familiar, it's the place that was our sanctuary, and our comfort.
18 Whether or not we can physically get there, it's always in our hearts and gives us a definition of exactly who we are and why we are.
19 And it isn't until we see a kid crying and telling everybody that he just wants to go home that it finally comes out, and touches our hearts, and we cry inside.
20 Because in so many ways, we are just like that kid.
21 We just want to go home again.
22 It's always there, and we love the place.
23 That's about it.
21 Have a great Friday everyone.
22 Peace.
~H~
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