Freedom in both The Domestic Home and The Open Road

Three years I was somewhere else on my journey. There are many ways to think about this past. A few thoughts from where I am at, **in** (not simply ‘at’) ‘home’, is that I am just as alone as I was then. The open road never gave me companionship, but neither did I expected it. The open road gave me a few extra, unusual, short opportunities of friendly conversations than now being at home. For that I miss the open road. Freedom is not what many persons think, and make it out to be. It is an important characteristic of life, but to be free one must be bounded, either bounded by the domestic home or by the open road that stretched towards the horizon. Both setting should be valued for what it is in life.

The Open Road, Friday, July 5, 2024, 15:13 hrs, Outback Eastern Australia

2022-07-07 The Black Swan Motel Pier, Lake Macquarie

2022-12-22 The Dump of Personal History at Home

Featured Image: In the Middle of Nowhere, American Television, Saturday July 6, 2024, 10:53, Outback Eastern Australia

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Neville Buch

Professional Historian at Professional Historians Association (Queensland) Inc.

Neville Buch (Pronounced Book) Ph.D. is a certified member of the Professional Historians Association (Queensland). Since 2010 he has operated a sole trade business in history consultancy. He was a Q ANZAC 100 Fellow 2014-2015 at the State Library of Queensland. Dr Buch was the PHA (Qld) e-Bulletin, the monthly state association’s electronic publication, and was a member of its Management Committee. He is the Managing Director of the Brisbane Southside History Network.

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