Spring clouds

I'm often asked if I ever get lonely out here in the middle of nowhere –
by you, by my family, by just about every person who has come to visit the 7MSN.

"Nope. Never. Not once," I say, which usually evokes a raised eyebrow

and the follow-up question, "Why not?" "Because. I just don't." 

I'm not an introspective, deep-thinking soul searcher who needs to understand the why of things.

But then I read this explanation by Jon Katz, and I think he nailed it:

People often confuse loneliness with aloneness... Loneliness is a lacking,

a feeling that something important is missing, a pain or sadness,

a need, an incompleteness or an absence.

Aloneness is the opposite. It is the embodiment of presence, fullness, of being alive,

of the joy of being. You are complete. You are whole, you are enough.

  I may have to embroider that on a pillow.