The only certainty in life is uncertainty

Love, be still. Love, be sweet.
Don't you dare, change a thing.
I want to photograph you with my mind.
To feel how I feel now, all the time.

Say that you'll stay, forever this way.
Forever and forever, let it never have to change.
Don't move, don't breathe.
Don't change, don't leave.
Promise me say you'll stay, we'll stay... this way.

Words from Jewel surface from the past.

How sobering that once we thought for that moment something could be so certain, hearts so full of conviction in the later years finds itself somewhere in the haze lumbering slowly finding direction. How sad that somehow unknowingly you walk a path and suddenly find yourself in the middle of nowhere, far from a direction you intended, a direction that morphs in stages, into an unrecognisable form that renders you powerless. And then there comes a point you reach the line and you try to tread slowly and carefully. But nothing changes the fact that once you reach its borders, vulnerability surfaces and leaves you susceptible to fate beyond your control.

Ten days and counting...
Back to a country alien and familiar... a place more home than home, but where everything's the same... and everything's different...
all at the same time.