{"id":1511,"date":"2015-06-17T19:23:07","date_gmt":"2015-06-17T22:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peelbooks.com\/susanjoycejourneys\/?p=1511"},"modified":"2015-06-17T19:23:07","modified_gmt":"2015-06-17T22:23:07","slug":"going-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peelbooks.com\/susanjoycejourneys\/2015\/06\/going-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Going Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1513\" src=\"https:\/\/peelbooks.com\/susanjoycejourneys\/wp-content\/uploads\/800px-Land_Iguana_Fernandina.jpg\" alt=\"800px-Land_Iguana_Fernandina\" width=\"800\" height=\"506\" srcset=\"https:\/\/peelbooks.com\/susanjoycejourneys\/wp-content\/uploads\/800px-Land_Iguana_Fernandina.jpg 800w, https:\/\/peelbooks.com\/susanjoycejourneys\/wp-content\/uploads\/800px-Land_Iguana_Fernandina-300x190.jpg 300w, https:\/\/peelbooks.com\/susanjoycejourneys\/wp-content\/uploads\/800px-Land_Iguana_Fernandina-624x395.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Returning home after being away is always thought provoking. For me anyway. My husband and I have just returned to our home in Uruguay after a cruise on the Alaska Inside Passage and a visit with our son in Arizona. Following our arrival in Uruguay, I expressed feeling grateful to be blessed with a comfortable home and loving animals waiting to welcome us. Over the years, when I&#8217;ve returned home to various places around the globe, I&#8217;ve scribbled notes in my journal of my diverse thoughts about going home. Each time I&#8217;m aware that I see &#8216;home&#8217; in a different light.<\/p>\n<p>When I lived in Germany on my own in the late 70s, I discovered Dory Previn&#8217;s music and rediscovered myself after a painful divorce. One of my favorite songs was from her album &#8220;Mythical Kings and Iguanas (Going Home is such a Ride).&#8221; Her sad but realistic lyrics tell about &#8220;a low and lonely ride.&#8221; I knew that feeling. The song comforted and inspired me, and I sang it often when I would first arrive home from a journey.<\/p>\n<p>A prolific singer and songwriter, Dory Previn was queen of the seventies confessional songwriters and her honest words and music struck a clear chord that resonated deep within as I searched for meaning in personal relationships and the absurdity of the world around me. My life seemed calm compared to Previn&#8217;s troubled one but I found her irony in dealing with religion (she was raised in a strict Catholic upbringing) and psychology most refreshing. Seems she was rediscovering herself as well. I read once about her live performance at Carnegie Hall and how a whole row of nuns got up and walked out when she sang her song, &#8220;Did Baby Jesus Have A Baby Sister.&#8221; I laughed out loud. Seems the audience did as well.<\/p>\n<p>As I wandered up and down the stairs of my life in Germany and learned to release losses and embrace new horizons, I felt grateful to Dory Previn for her pure and profound poetry encouraging me to dive to the bottom and go &#8220;down, down, down where the Iguanas play.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Thank you Dory Previn for teaching and reaching me.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Dory Previn - Going Home (Mythical Kings and Iguanas)\" width=\"525\" height=\"394\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XSsPztxFZH8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Returning home after being away is always thought provoking. For me anyway. My husband and I have just returned to our home in Uruguay after a cruise on the Alaska Inside Passage and a visit with our son in Arizona. Following our arrival in Uruguay, I expressed feeling grateful to be blessed with a &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/peelbooks.com\/susanjoycejourneys\/2015\/06\/going-home\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Going Home&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,14,24,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-inspirational","category-spiritual","category-writing"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peelbooks.com\/susanjoycejourneys\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peelbooks.com\/susanjoycejourneys\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peelbooks.com\/susanjoycejourneys\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peelbooks.com\/susanjoycejourneys\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peelbooks.com\/susanjoycejourneys\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/peelbooks.com\/susanjoycejourneys\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1511\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peelbooks.com\/susanjoycejourneys\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peelbooks.com\/susanjoycejourneys\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peelbooks.com\/susanjoycejourneys\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}