Making Peace With Place, Or A Florida Woman’s Lament

By S. Elizabeth

https://unquietthings.com/currently-making-peace-with-place-or-a-florida-womans-lament/

From Ruth Marten’s Foutain’s & Alligators series, #4 (as seen in The Art of Darkness)

Even though I have lived here practically my whole life, I know deep in my soul that this is not where I am meant to be. (I’m certain that my soul is meant to be on the misty Pacific Northwest coastline or in a quaint New England town.) And yet, for the foreseeable future, Florida is where I must be. How to reconcile this?