There and back again, the tale of a wandering Jewess

I currently find myself in somewhat familiar territory--sitting and waiting for my flight in Suvarhnabhumi airport in Bangkok, Thailand. This is the fifth time I am doing this in the past three and a half months and my tenth overall time in this airport. I think I know it better than ewr now. Only this time feels very different, and perhaps the most foreign of m experiences in southeast Asia, which is a very high standard. And no, it is not just because this time I am waiting in the royal silk lounge whereas in the past I have been scrounging for bench while being sat on by oblivious Chinese people who seem to either not notice or not care that I am already in a seat ( it's not bein judgemental, just honest. Ask Lucy.). In about about an hour I will be boarding a plane that will take me west to Frankfurt, Germany and then further west on to new York, completing my around the world experience that started flying west out of NY to china. There are many things that have happened since my last post, and I do not have the energy in this moment to draft them together. I am in a different sort of mindset than I have often been when leaving a place I had come to consider a sort of home. It's true that many aspects of Bangkok, thailand, and Asia as a whole remained to this last moment utterly incomprehensible to me, unclear, bizarre and irrational. But my time here, so completely removed from most everything that could be considered familiar to me for 90% of the time enabled the time and the place to really in many ways take a different sort of hold over me and my mindset, sometimes for better, sometimes for worse. Who can say if ive been changed for the bett, but, I have been changed for good.