- being around and on those streets after more than 20 years... being around people a lot and hearing their stories about their lives, families, memories... at work, being assigned a doctor who used to be mine many years ago... a few examples making a lot of things pop in...

For the last six weeks,

There have been so many

Things pop up as reminders

Of a life of a distant past,

As if to drill in the contrast

Of what it used to be

And where it is at now.

There are the more immediate

Differences too that pop in,

And all of it is going around

My mind in a mini whirlpool,

Drawing up a lot of emotions

That I wasn't expecting at all.

I'm ok, but it's a lot to process.