As a military brat, time is intrinsically connected with place for me. Once I leave someplace, it's often some time before I'm able to visit again, if I ever ge

As a military brat, time is intrinsically connected with place for me. Once I leave someplace, it's often some time before I'm able to visit again, if I ever get to. I became aware very early in adulthood (maybe, unconsciously, in childhood) that what's thought of as familiar is reliant on temporal as well as geographic proximity. Things cease to exist as you knew them quite quickly. Even if nothing gets built or demolished, trees grow.