These past few weeks, my heart has been longing for home. Even though my family left Mississippi when I was 6 years old, it still feels like home. It's not that I don't feel at home here in the PNW, but there is something magical about the South.
Most of all, I miss my extended family, but also, that dirty water, those cypress trees, the spanish moss, and the food. I started a garden this year, just so that I could have some fried green tomatoes. Back in MS you can buy those in the grocery store, but not here. Here, the only okra you can find is frozen or pickled, and not even everyone knows what it is.
The problem is that I don't want to just visit Mississippi, I want to live there. There are some things about the South that I detest. The heat is number one, the bugs are a close second. The heat comes in 3rd again. I don't like way that hardly anyone spays or neuters their pets, no matter WHAT Bob Barker said.
There are things about MS that you can't find anywhere else. It's true what they say about Southern Hospitality. Even the punk, snot-nosed teenagers have respect for their elders. The food is beyond compare. People aren't afraid of pitbulls. Everyone is close to their family, and their friend's families, and their friends' friends' families. People sit outside their house on their front porch drinking iced tea all day, so if you drive by, you know they are home.
Other things I love about the South include:
- Chicory Coffee
- Casino Boats
- Party on the Shrimp Boat!
- Fishing off the Pier on the gulf and watching the pelicans dive against the sunset
- Crawfish Boils - fun even though I refuse to eat the nasty-looking little things.
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