Passing Through New York - from home to home

When I wrote the heading "passing through New York" I thought of the hundreds of immigrants in the last century and before who "passed through New York", and here in 2010 I am going the other way stopping off on my way back home to Ireland.

What reflections do I have with this passing through. I realize that I am a person of two worlds - the american emigrant who has embraced what it means to be an american, who has settled and made this great country her homeland while still holding onto her irish emigrant status. I do realize what this means for me - I am a person of two worlds, an outsider in both.