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I'm a Refugee at Heart

Anthropologist Loren Eiseley, whose life and career was a brilliant search for meaning and whose books are a romance in language, called himself “a refugee at heart, a wistful glancer over fences.” I love that description and find so much in it to identify with. All my life I, too, have been a seeker: for love; for purpose and meaning; for affirmation of whatever skills I have learned; for an expanding awareness both in my soul and in my mind; for an embracing of wonder and beauty, of ecstasy and delight; a seeker of a simple goodness inspired by a generous heart. These remain longings of mine. I have also been a fugitive, an alien of sorts, a defector escaping the confines of suffocating rules and stifling beliefs; a person displaced in a setting of so many contradictions. I was born a captive and have struggled all these years to be free. I had loving parents and amazing grandparents.  And as a boy I enjoyed all the things boys do.  I played with toy soldiers