5 Minute Friday: Roots

My favorite blog in the whole world is the Gypsy Mama (Lisa-Jo Baker). She write the most honest, beautiful truths about parenting. Sometimes, I think she must be spying on me! If you need some encouragement from someone whose not going to tell you HOW to parent, but just that YOU CAN DO IT, she is the one.
Every week she does a link up called 5 Minute Friday. She gives a one word topic and all sorts of people write about it for just 5 minutes and then link up. I've never really thought about participating, because I figured it didn't really relate to reporting on our life here, but I just got finished sharing for a whole month about what I do in the kitchen so I figure I'm way past just reporting on our work!
I'm not promising to do this every week or that I'll never cheat. I mean seriously getting 5 minutes uninterrupted is hard around here! If you're one of those picky gramar people you probably shouldn't read it at all! 5 minutes is not long enough for me to look up comma rules for crying out loud! But, here goes.

Roots

I'm not sure that I even knew I had roots before I moved to Tanzania. I was fed up with so many things about our American, Western, Consumerist society. I was ready to get away. But, once I did I could look back and see all the good that I wasn't seeing before. There is a lot about our culture that needs to be changed, refined, redeemed, but there is also some good in there. And from this other continent I finally realized that I most definitely have roots planted deep in Tennessee. Family and culture and even just a love of that place. I miss the seasons, the sounds, the tastes.. and of course the people.

One day we will move back to Tennessee, and I wonder, Will I find that I managed to plant some roots over here in Tanzania? Will I find that my roots now span continents and I'll never really be fully home?