I don't know when it happened, nor how nor why, but I just realized that I stopped thinking of myself as a veteran or has ever been a soldier.
Hmm.
This is unfettered ground to place the seeds of my thoughts and ideas brought with me from other places. The only way to know what is here is to find a path and follow it. There may be paths here you don't find particularly pretty and some that seem completely childish. But this is my land. Come walk with me.