your bridge home
Saints and Poets
He went to Boston for a conference in 1920 and did not go home until 1952.
He went to Boston in 1920 for a meeting. He stayed in America thirty-two years.
That is the whole shape of it. It all follows from a Bengali monk of twenty-seven getting off a ship. He read a paper at the International Congress of Religious Liberals, and chose not to go home.
The rest of this story, read aloud, and a new one every day.