Everywhere and nowhere

My niece Kristin (sister of my niece Kirstin) commented on the post the other day about our impending move, "I always felt like you lived everywhere and no where at the same time (if that makes sense!)"

 It makes perfect sense to me. When I was in the monastery, we had three-year assignments. Because it was easier to move the younger friars from place to place, I moved a lot. When Kristin and Kirstin and their brother Justin were growing up in Texas, every time their Uncle Mike came to visit the family, he probably came from a different place than where he had come from the year or two before.

So here is the journey so far:

1950 -- Born in Georgia in May and moved to Texas in October
1950 -- 1953 -- Whitehouse, Texas
1953 -- 1968 -- Huntsville, Texas
1968 -- 1972 -- East Lansing, Michigan (attending Michigan State University)
1972 -- 1973 -- Monastery of Marylake, Little Rock, Arkansas
1974 -- (January -- August) -- Monastery of the Little Flower, San Antonio, Texas
(August) 1974 -- 1977 -- Mount Carmel Center, Dallas, Texas
1977 -- 1979 -- Monastery of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, Washington, DC (attending    
                         Catholic University)
1979 -- 1981 -- Mount Carmel Center, Dallas, Texas
1981 -- 1984 -- Monastery of the Espousal, Brookline, Massachusetts
1984 -- 1985 -- St. Louis, Missouri (attending St. Louis University)
1985 -- 1993 -- Holy Hill, near Milwaukee, Wisconsin
1993 -- 1994 -- Barrington, Rhode Island (sabbatical studying at Brown University)
1994 -- 1998 -- Monastery of the Espousal, Brighton, Massachusetts (the Brookline
                         community had moved to a new location)
1998 -- 2006 -- Hyde Park, Chicago, Illinois
     1998 -- 2004 -- Edith Stein House of Studies 
                              (Six months of 2003 in Silver Spring, Maryland)
     2004 -- 2006 -- My own apartment
2006 -- 2015 -- Wisconsin Dells/Town of Delton, Wisconsin

Throw in there three summers studying in Mexico City in the 1970s and a summer in Spain in 1978.

So I have lived here on Berry Road longer than I have lived anywhere except for the years growing up in Huntsville.

Whew! I should be used to moving by now.