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My wife and I had a  nice quiet day or two as we went over to Shipshewana, In. to buy some groceries we can't get in our stores.  Though it is an Amish/Mennonite commercial spot it is also considerably laid back.  We make the little drive, two to three times a year.  We sometimes make a two day event, accompanied with a motel stay and  head up to the Michigan shoreline.  Where rising early, we might head out to the beach for an early coffee and  day dream out loud  with one another.

Many times it is enough to drive, shop, have lunch and return home.  We live in a small quiet "subdivision" of homes. Houses in the neighborhood are a nerf ball throw away, yet walking out to the backyard looking out to our tree line you have the notion you are far away.  The reality of barely hearing the rushing sound of the interstate traffic a few blocks away, still it is peaceful to us (when company visits, it's still quiet yet, we are most likely the noisiest).

Even in our so called ; peaceful, just the two of us setting,  that we actually,very seldom leave, we look forward to an excursion toward some other community's "backyard".  We travel somewhere nostalgic resembling somewhere our parents perhaps would have gone to get away from occupation, even family, (Impossible thanks to cell phones).

Balance is the key.  Enjoying home as well a premeditated holiday.  The alternative is; not loving either place, desiring to always being somewhere else.  Groaning for the past or future not living in the present (feel free to rotate those tenses)

Live life for God and others and enjoy the journey.  Be content in whatever state you are in.  Regardless, if it is Michigan, Illinois, or Indiana......!