WHAT IS “HOME” TO YOU?

HOME IS WHERE I AM

I remember in my 20’s just moving away from the town I had grown up in, lots of changes happening in my world + uplevels personally taking place.. beginning to understand that for me, “home” was not the place I was born, not the place my family was from or living, not a house.. it was a feeling. It is something I create and can create anywhere, because it’s within me. Home meant and means to me to day a place inside myself that is influenced and sometimes contingent upon the external world but it’s not always a geographic place.

Have you ever met people or been in a friendship, relationship with someone that felt like home? I have used this to describe many people in my life. I am around them and it just feels like it’s what “home” is defined as. I am comfortable, safe, vulnerable..

Have you ever lived in a geographic place, not a house or apartment, but just a place that feels like home? That’s how I describe Venice for me, it just feels like home, all of it. Not just a building, but the area as a whole. When I cross the imaginary boundary lines that bring me into the town I can feel my body, my mind shift. It’s home.

I feel the feeling of being “home” can look different at different periods of our lives. It can also hold more meanings than just a place. And the more people over the years have asked me “when are you coming home?” “where do you call home?” the more I cringe because it’s just not that simple to me. I find home everywhere, in faces, spaces + places and hope I always do.