where we live

just reading some comments on majority of two, a wonderful blog by the way. everybody seems to have a connection to where they are from. it doesn't have to be some exotic locale or storied city.[of course it could be] it does seem to be about where we were born. we might move away at an early age or we might die there but there is something familar, something thats hard to put a finger on. the earliest images of life seem to be implanted, hardwired almost into our very being. a very talented man, rod sterlng of twilight zone fame called it a geographic womb, somewhere you felt...safe.i was born in the small massachusett town of medway, my family living there at the time. but my earliest recollections are of southville, where we moved when i was almost three. thats where i started school. south union, a four story brick building on a hill that still brings back certain memories. its an art center now, i actually walked its worn hallways 15 years or so ago. to me it was the center of everything. the house we lived in from 1959 to 1967 is still standing. it was in need of alot of care , almost in disrepair. i was very happy to see somsbody buy it in the late nineties and fix it up. i never wanted to leave that house but i have also never set foot into it since i left. someday i would like to own that house, return to southville. its where i belong, its where i was happy. i left too much behind........bye for now, jc