A Search for Home in the Time of Illness

How an injury finally satisfied my abiding desire to find a home.

Me hiking in HK (photo courtesy of the author)

I hovered over him the same way he once hovered over me, at this table, ten years ago. This time, we stared at a puzzle instead of calculus. He locked in the last border pieces outlining the soon-to-be picture of Banff’s Rocky Mountains and Lake Louise on a fall day — leaves starting to…