Considering Our Deep Longing to Get Back Home

How “Planes, Trains, and Automobiles” gets me there every time

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We can think of life in two modes: 1. Our drive to go “out there,” and 2. Our longing to get back home.

When I was in high school, living under my parent’s house rules, I couldn’t wait to get “out there” on the college campus four states away, with all that…