There’s No Disgrace Like Home

There is an old adage from a Thomas Wolfe novel titled, “You Can’t Go Home Again.”  I don’t think one could take it literally unless home no longer exists.  It’s only a figure of speech since many folks have left, but never left, or left and moved back, or left for awhile and found out they never left at all such as Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz.  All she had to do in the end is just click her heels 3 x’s and repeat, “There’s No Place Like Home, there’s no place like home, there’s no place like home, there’s no place like home……!  I, myself, have come and gone a gazillion times while growing up, however, there is one universal consistency, the older I got, the more I became unattached.  Now that I’m in my 70’s and after being around the world a few times, home has become fluid.  My residential home is in the boonies of Northern Minnesota, most of my time this past year has been spent at our apartment in the Twin City Area and I am writing this article at an Airbnb in Playa del Carmen, Mexico on our Family Dental Plan.  The dentist office is my home this week, one of my least favorite places.  I am fortunate in that I am welcome wherever I go and, most of the time, I like wherever I am.  Not everyone can make that claim and I know one particular guy who is not welcome in many places and will, most likely, never go home again, unless he’s subpoenaed.

I’ve been to New York City a few times and hang out most evenings in Times Square.  I have met a few folks there and have chatted with countless others and I can safely say that I have more friends there than hometown local yokel, Donald Trump.  The hometown zero has become so reviled there that he vacated after only 2 days and hasn’t been back, preferring to be exiled to Mar-a-Lago Land since his hometown has commenced with criminal proceedings against him.  The city can smell blood and are hoping for a feeding frenzy.  I guess he finally got the message that he was no longer welcome.  I would have thought he would have figured it out when he lost in his own hometown being beaten by an out-of-towner by 1.6 million votes, 76% of the total.  That is a resounding defeat for the home grown goon.  Humpty Trumpty had a great fall as the former King of New York crashed and burned.  Couldn’t happen to a creepier guy.  Rumor on the street has it that he plans on taking up residency this summer across the Hudson River in New Jersey.  I’m surprised that he would take up space in a blue state with a democratic governor where he only got 41% of the vote.  I would think it would be easier to extradite him from there than it would be from Florida.  Although, it would be great to see Governor DeSantis overrun by the Federal Government.  Wouldn’t it be absolutely titillating to see Trump get convicted?  Just think of the folks in prison now who are incarcerated for a lot less.  If he does, I have a way out for him.  All he has to do is bash his head 3 x’s and repeat, “There’s No Disgrace Like Home, there’s no disgrace like home, there’s no disgrace like home, there’s no disgrace like home….....!  Stay tuned…..!

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