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why don't you just go home

why don't you just go home

come home even?

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Jul 08, 2022
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yellow wooden house near mountain during cloudy day
Vidar Nordli-Mathisen
1. Drop back into the room. Come back. 
Come back and nurture. Nourish. Take care of things. 

2. Come back to yourself. Come on. Why is it so easy to leave home for someone else? Why is the pull so insistent? 

Come back to yourself and us, say your guides. See what we are showing you. See how we always honour you. Let the walls be a testament to the good things you know. Let the ground insist that, yes, you are kept. 

3. Trust yourself and the things that you know. 

4. Trust yourself. Think on
all the summers that led you safe thus far
all the nights that held you in (or out of) place 

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