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As my wife and I landed back in Louisiana after a trip to California last month, I began thinking of a Jane Kenyon poem that I treasure. It\u2019s called \u201cComing Home at Twilight in Late Summer,\u201d and it\u2019s about all the urgencies that greet you after you\u2019ve been gone from home awhile.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo much to be done,\u201d Kenyon laments, \u201cthe unpacking, the mail and papers\u00a0\u2026 the grass needed mowing.\u201d Her poem reminded me what was ahead when we turned into our driveway.<\/p>\n

A home misses you while you\u2019re gone, which is a good thing, I suppose, although the longing can take complicated forms. As soon as we placed our bags into the car at the airport, our little household, peeved by our absence, began to air its grievances. The air conditioning in our car went out as we paid the airport parking fee, signaling a big repair bill that made me wince a bit after our vacation splurge.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Danny and Catherine Heitman recently took a train ride from San Diego to Santa Barbara during their trip to California. “A home misses you while you\u2019re gone,” he writes, “which is a good thing, I suppose, although the longing can take complicated forms.”<\/p>\n

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Pulling into the driveway after our ride home, I noticed that the gas lantern on our porch had blown out in one of the rainstorms we\u2019d missed while we were gone. Fire ant mounds rose like volcanoes from the corners of our lot, and our grass, of course, was as tall as corn.<\/p>\n

Inside, a kind someone had saved our newspapers, arranged as neatly as cordwood just beyond the threshold. A little mountain of unopened parcels sat on the rug, and there was a stack of junk mail at its summit.<\/p>\n

Slowly, we began to empty our luggage of laundry, which quickly formed a hill near the washer. Like a midden of relics from a lost civilization, it yielded small clues about the life we\u2019d led on the road. There were swimsuits from our evening in a hot tub, a shirt stained with caramel from an afternoon at an ice cream parlor and socks still crusted with sand from a lovely Pacific beach.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Over several days, we reclaimed our regular life.<\/p>\n

I pushed our mower over the high blades of grass, and the yard shed its shaggy excess and revealed a calmer, saner self. I restocked our birdfeeders, repairing one that had been pillaged by a squirrel. The garden fountain, which had shorted out when we weren\u2019t around, is fixed and working again.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s only now, in the return to routine, that I\u2019ve had time to think about the second part of Kenyon\u2019s poem. In the concluding stanza, after reciting the humdrum list of chores that awaits a returning traveler, she remarks on a household pear tree, heavy with fruit, that had worked up its bounty while she and her husband were on the road.<\/p>\n

What Kenyon seems to say is that leaving home is a good way to savor its wonders when you return\u00a0\u2014 something I\u2019m learning again now that our luggage is back on the shelf.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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