Here is the House

My parents and sibs are "going back home" to Iran for a month. I'm staying here, of course, working like I always do. But going back "home" is different this time. For the first time that I am aware of, they'll be going to someplace other than my grandmother's home. She passed away a few months after I visited Iran in 2000. They spent the first night with my uncle. Somehow, it has sunk in a different and more profound way.