In Search of America, Part 3

Timothy Briner, 2007

Today I dropped Laura off at the airport. Another great visit with another sad goodbye. It has been hard to shut down and not think about my work for the times Laura has visited me. But it is even harder to get past the void that is left when she is gone.

"My wife flew in from the East for her brief visit. I was delighted at the change, back to my known and trusted life--but here I run into literary difficult...

When that time was over and the good-bye said, I had to go through the same lost loneliness all over again, and it was no less painful then at first. There seemed to be no cure for loneliness save only being alone." John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley: In Search of America, 1962