My Native Place sends me some of the same feelings that Wendell Berry experiences about going back to his home place. Although I have not lived at my native place for many years I was there almost every weekend as a child and still visit it once a week now. When W.Berry went home he felt that he knew his home place of Kentucky. He then realized upon going back that he now didn't know as much of the place as he once did. I feel that my native place is very different in a way that I don't like it. Berry says, "I began to see the place with new clarity and understanding." I understand now why my native place has changed over the years. I just don't like the reason for the changes or the changes just as Berry explained, "Now that I am both native and citizen, there is no immunity to what is wrong." I feel that it is wrong for my native place to go "changing" on me. I really would love it if it stayed the same for me to grow old. Berry soon explores his part of Kentucky and realizes that the landscape of the town are both a little the same and very different. He remembers the landscape the way it used to be. I can remember the backyard of my native place being extremely different then it stands today.
Another way in which I relate to W.Berry is when he says, "How they chose to treat this place while they lived in it, the lives of most of them diminished it." I feel that the emptiness of my native place is diminishing my memories of the life it used to hold. Back years ago, they were still together and the house had life. Now it is empty most of the year and the family is not as tight at it once was. The lack of family and love in the native place has diminished it.
*7003,no more grill in yard,no more sled,new hard wood kitchen floor,new appliances,Why would they sell this house? #Twitterive #NativePlace
*No More Tea Set, it looks as if a children were never even here, same brown garage door, garaged emptied now #NativePlace #Twitterive
*Same Plaque, same lamp shades, no more kids movies, bedrooms rearranged, no more fence, no more shed in the yard #NativePlace #Twitterive
*The House that Built Me, Its not the same years later, remodeled kitchen, new furniture #NativePlace #Twitterive
*Yellowness from the outside, small pink room, blue bathroom, empty Fridge, need to check the mail #NativePlace #Twitterive