When I'm More Baggins Than Took

I find myself feeling very hobbit like as summer ends and fall rolls in, as the leaves change colors and there are more overcast days (and winter is coming , to mix my stories) and I keep finding that I love Bloomington and Hope more than I did the week before. (art by Jian Guo ... some of my favorite LOTR fan art!) I'm hobbit like not in the sense of wanting so many meals a day (though I don't object) but in the sense that I don't want adventures, not big ones anyway. I don't want to go. I want to stay here, to get a dog and get married and buy a house and have children, to walk these sidewalks that are not crowded with bodies. I want to stay through the familiar cycle of seasons, year after year. I don't want to juggle airline tickets and languages and never having enough time to say all the goodbyes, never being able to fade into an afternoon of easy invisibility in the grocery store. My heart wants to cocoon itself in a safe shell of familiar comf