Re: meeting of minds

Kristian wrote:

> from a very early age. But I'd really like to belong somewhere. I
> envy people who can say with certainty, "I'm Danish" or "I'm
> Filipino" or "I'm American" - I simply can't say this. But I CAN
> say, "I'm Boreanesian"!
This made me nod and smile. I wouldn't say I have an identity crisis, but
having grown up in the South of England, with Northern, Scottish and
Orcadian roots, I've often been unsure where 'home' is. Really, of course,
it's where I am, but when I go to Scotland that feels like home too. What
was most remarkable, though, was how much at home I felt when I visited the
Jameldic homeland this year.

[Explanation: Half my life ago, when Jameld was new to me, I sat down in
the school library with a big atlas and tried to work out where this
language could be from. I decided on a small area in Alsace, Eastern
France, round the town of Wissembourg. I knew nothing of the town, or the
country around it. I just sketched a map of the area into my homework
diary, added a vague boundary and that was it. The whole thing just hung
around at the back of my mind until last year, when I picked up a Michelin
map of the area and decided it looked rather interesting: hilly, wooded and
dotted with chateaux. Finally this summer I went there with some friends
for a week, and it's stunning. Jammy.]

Unlike any other place I'd visited on holiday (with the exception of
certain bits of Scotland where I have "real" roots), this felt like home,
part of me. I'm itching to go back.

James

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+ James Campbell   james@zeugma.force9.co.uk
+ More about the Jameldic homeland (Zuraalant) in PDF-format document
+        "The Jameld Line" at http://www.zeugma.force9.co.uk/zm/archive
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