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October 27, 2011

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Our current home in Iowa

What does home mean to you?   I found this writing prompt and thought it was a good thing to sit and cogitate upon.  Over the years I have had a lot of homes.  Ask my family.  Their address books are filled with addresses for us.  In total if I include all of the temporary housing and moves in my lifetime I have “lived” in approximately 24 different locations.  Now if you divide that by my age in years I have averaged 2.15 years in each place.  I guess that is not too bad.  A lot of people move.  A lot of people stay in the same town and sometimes the same house for most of their lives.  Not me!!!

When I think of home I don’t necessarily think of a house.  It is more of a feeling.  It is where Chris is.  It is where the boys used to be.   It is kind of just an emotional feeling and not a physical place. There is a song that I love by Edward Sharpe and The Magnetic Zeros called Home.  The chorus is:

Ahh, Home
Let me come Home
Home is wherever I’m with you
(2x)
La la la la, take me Home
Baby, I’m coming Home

Yep. That is what I am talking about!!!  You have heard all of the phrases.

  • Home is where the heart is.
  • A house is made of walls and beams, a home is made of love and dreams.
  • Home is not where you live but where they understand you.
  • Home is the place where it feels right to walk around without shoes.
  • Home is where you can say anything that you please because they do not listen to you anyway.
  • There is nothing half as pleasant as coming home again.
  • Home is where you hang your head.
  • Home is home, be it ever so humble.
  • Home is an invention upon which no one has been able to improve.
  • Home is where the house is.
Home to me is a feeling.  Not the brick or mortar or cedar siding.  Not the square footage or the furniture that inhabits the dwelling.  It is the place where I feel comfortable and safe.  And that is always where my husband is.  Always.  Without fail.  I am blessed.  Yes, I have had a lot of different “homes” but always with the same man and to me that is what it is all about.

What do you consider home?  I would love to hear!

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