Please hold while I push away the virtual dust that has accumulated on my blog page. Give me a moment to find my comfortable writing place that I have left abandoned for quite some time. Allow me to take a second to take in the fact that I am returning to my writing again. Now I hope that shows just how much I've missed my blog. I feel like I abandoned a person. The worst part is I stopped updating it when I was telling you all about my crazy-amazing-life-changing-self-enhancing summer journey to the other side of the world. So why did I come back? Because too many times these past few days, although I have returned to America and am no longer physically in the Occupied land, I've been visiting it mentally. I've tossed and turned in my bed tucked away beneath olive trees, hid under the shade of the fig tree, and when I felt myself losing inspiration to journal, I ended up returning to the window in my grandparents' old house that looked over the whole village. Sin...