How much do you bother decorating when you're only going to be in a place for a couple months? Do you change your address for everything?
And what if you're not sure how long you'll be in town? Do you apply for a library card? What do you say at church or in conversations with friendly faces you run into at the grocery store?
Of course, being in my hometown again makes it easier--many people already know me and I already have a library card (has it expired? do those ever expire?). But still. Funny how dealing with the uncertain is so... well, uncertain.
Instability. Uncertainty.
This is my new place.
Hesitating, ambulating,
I am the new face.
(© Ellen P. 2011)
