Sought and Found

Rian's Yogini has - just very recently - found her father. Elizabeth, who also hangs in canvas on Rian's wall, is in her latish twenties. A lovely creature all of muscle and sinew and dark eyes and sun washed flesh.

She grew up in Italy. She says until a few days ago, she thought her heart resided in Verbena. For over a decade she has been longing to return. Scrimping and saving until, finally this summer, she purchased the time and aeroplane ticket.

She was supposed to leave for Italy on Monday, yes?

She met her father for the first time two weeks ago. And she has cancelled her trip to Verbena, "Put the ticket in a back pocket."

Because, she says, she has finally learned that: "Home is not a place. It is not the building or the landscape or even the physical. It is here, in my heart, and I have found peace."

I hope the man is worthy of his child.