When you pick up a book and it changes your life

 Well almost, but not entirely...

 

I was clearly not the only one captured by this book. I heard of it, saw that it made some headlines as a major motion picture but had no idea what I was getting into when I clicked download from my local public library. I figured it was some fictional adventure, but instead met with brutal honesty, historical facts, a picture of America's truest economy through the last century plus. 

I'm about a third of the way through this book after taking my own little adventure in an RV unbeknownst to me that there is an entire community making their own way all the while I'm working a well paid job, living out what could be casted as an American dream yet I feel like I'm missing a key ingredient - of love and people - having wandered somewhat to achieve this career and so at a lost on how to set out roots, how to find my tribe and keep it going while 100s if not 1000s of miles away from presumably my closest family and friends. 

Strewn about by the turmoil of world that has very little impact on my day to day, I tell myself, keep it local, keep the focus on the people you can have a direct impact, your circle of neighbors, co workers, the community in which you live, but I have yet to find that. My meager attempts at knocking on my neighbor's door or holiday cookies has cut through the weary nature of working 9-5, picking up my kid, trying to be a wife/mother. 

I don't know in what direction this little novel which seems to be a work of love by a Jessica Bruder will take me but I wanted to share it here because clearly it has captured some of our wildest imagination for something greater. I was going to say sustainable, but perhaps that is the problem, life is not sustainable, it will end here so to expect to build a house that will last, seems absolutely counter to the whispering waves that moves our life. 

To the nomadic life, the war torn refugee, the struggling immigrant, the misunderstood concepts of finding and receiving love, to that life we somehow know we are meant to live but have yet to discover.