Two useful advantages of the present adversity:
1. I will no longer, even slightly, pine for this place, despite the fact that I've lived here for many years.
2. Should I be able to get back to the nomad scheme abroad or find a sufficient place and means stateside, I need to be always writing. I had that sense, and some interesting promptings towards it, but there were countervailing factors. I see now that those factors are outweighed, and that I would be best off using as many breaths and heartbeats to shape words and texts as possible. Even if all is writ in water, it must be written.