I'll dream of Chicago....

Tonight is one of those night's...

Where my memories are able to carry me to another place...

I can taste the air...

Feel the heaviness of the humidity....

In the middle of the night last night I awoke....

My cold had gotten the better of me and sleep was a distant memory....

I settled down at my laptop with a hot cup of tea for a long night....

And there it was...

Staring me in the face...

A post from an old friend... a memory.... a farewell....

And my heart was still....

For in that moment I was transported....

To a "family" from another land...

the Longing to hold them and love them....

a country I called my own...

A town that holds my heart....

And as the day went on... 

My heart was there....

Running the trails I had discovered on my most recent visit...

feeling the dampness of the humidity on my skin...

Sensing the lush green around me...

Tonight... I'll dream of Chicago....

and I'll dream of a life I left behind...

And I will know...

For me...

It will always be a place I call home...