10 years ago to the day I flew into JFK and took a 2-3 hour shuttle ride to Princeton. I was wide-eyed, maybe a little cynical, mostly naive and inexperienced.
Last week I drove 10 hours, in a rental car, from Ann Arbor to JFK and flew out to Israel. With much more baggage, in every sense of the word. Baggage weighs us down (all glorious 200 pounds of it---oh boy does some of that have to go), but it also contains all manner of useful and joyful things. I may still be cynical and naive and wide-eyed, but only (I hope) in the best sense.
10 years in the US have taught and given me a lot. I hope to be back soon.
