Searching for bonds

If I could just hold your hand, feel the roughness of your skin as you interlock your fingers with mine.
I could bind you through touch.
If you would just tell me about your day, listen as its highs and lows mingle with mine.
I could bind you through words.
If you would just catch my eye across a crowded room, my eyes smile in reply.
I could bind you through sight.
I could tether our souls to that pillar of eternity....Just give me something to bind us with.

"Slow down and enjoy life. It's not only the scenery you miss by going too fast." -Eddie Cantor

Came accross this quote while looking at this site....just struck a nice chord in me :-)

The Wanderer Returns

It happened so slowly, the change inside. I did not notice, nor did he confide. I was away for so long, experienced so many worlds. At each new turn I watched them unfurl. Each earth I compared to the last I had seen. I just a traveller, chasing my dreams. Eventually I returned to that familiar door, everything the same, people still fighting their wars. That street I had walked for so many years, now one of thousands. I no longer held my fears. My world had remained, still and unchanged. My mind confused, my heart felt chained. Just yesterday home had been a distant place, now here I was carrying from all those worlds, a trace. I was different, yet everything else the same. He was waiting for me there. I could sense his pain. Who had returned from those different worlds. It was a new person. Can we change our moulds? Yes I had changed, but about this he kept mute. For despite having seen places better and worse, here I was, The Wanderer returned.

Great things about Ghana:
-Some of the friendliest people i've ever met (in every sense of the word)
-Damn can those people dance!
-They lurve music, anytime, anywhere!
-People will only comment on your looks to tell you you look nice
-Some of the scenery is amazing
-Its one of the worlds biggest producers of cocoa and therefore suppyling us with chocolate!
-People (mainly women) can carry anything on their heads....from hi-fi's to apples to planks of wood...and run or dance at the same time!
-it has fantatstic wooden sculptures and art.
-It has a fab national anthem!

Not so great things about Ghana:
-some taxi drivers try and rip you off as soon as they realise your not from Ghana
-It takes ages to travel places
-Actually it takes ages to do anything
-Its reeaaally hot....apart from when it rains when its fantastic :-)

er...can't think of anymore right now......lets just leave it at that shall we! :-D

Im back!!
Not entirely sure how happy i am about that, although i did miss everyone :-)....had an absolutely amazing time...not sure i can put it all into words. Met some fantastic people..... saw a whole other culture and world...... got my hair braided :-D
All I can say is that I'll always carry a part of that country and it's people with me.