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I had a tough time naming this photograph. I could have easily chosen migneco-stl-6888. I could have chosen, St. Louis Downtown View From The Mississippi River and hit some of my keywords for SEO.

Any of those choices would have been enough.

I chose Home, From the River, instead, simply because I’d come home before. I’d come home several times before, in fact. I’d driven across bridges in a car when I drove home. I’d flown over the area when I took a plane ride home. I’d never walked home — at least not from downtown…zikes! that’s a short thought. Anyway, all of those sights of coming home are part of my memory, built in as part of the life that I’ve lived, part of the feeling I get from seeing my home.

Down on the river, sitting on the deck of a great big river boat, I realized that I’d never seen home like this before. I’d never arrived home via the River and looked up at the Arch, up, up, up…into the bright, blue sky and beautiful puffy clouds expanding and collapsing over my hometown, with a big steam stack blowing a set of whistles behind me for the Coast Guard. I’d never done that before.

And, look at the big city view…it says home, to me.

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