"Homewords": Introduction, 3

       A professor retires and discovers an old bag in a closet stuffed with slips of paper--with words on them.  He is taken aback; there are 20 or 25 years of words that had caught his attention--but that he didn't have time to investigate while working.  He just stuffed them in a bag.

       Finding the way home seems to be what this writing is all about, getting to the source, the etymological root of the words, but also to a source in experience, to the point at which the words brushed against my life.