: just your average grain of salt :

     It's been about 6 months since I moved back to America from Cyprus. When I first got home, I had really weird dreams. For a while, I thought it was a reverse culture-shock thing, but I still have them several months later. Sometimes in my dreams, all the constellations are upside down again, like they looked in Cyprus in May. That is  the biggest thing that made me feel far away from my country...it was more than being in a different climate, surrounded by different languages; looking at the night sky made me feel like I was in a totally different world!      If I'm honest most days I don't think about my time on that island a lot. I keep myself busy enough to not think back too much, but remember enough to [hopefully] keep in mind the lessons I learned. But if I ever have enough time available to let my mind wander, the memories start pouring in! And then I just miss it all so much. How close I felt to God, the community, the people w...