Rod Dreher has a poignant reflection up on his roots in Louisiana. He finishes:
I thought about this memory this weekend, visiting Ruthie and my family. Ruthie and Mike bought part of what was once the orchard from our distant cousins, and built their house there. The rest of the land that had once been Lois and Hilda's was sold to strangers. The cabin has long been gone; a nice big brick house belonging to someone I don't know is now where the cabin was. True to Hilda's palm-reading prophecy, I traveled far in my life. I have now spent well over half my life living away from there. Yet that is home for me, because that is where my family is, and the landscape of my childhood. Now, though, my parents are getting up in years, and my younger sister, at age 40, is battling a disease that may ...
