The air is hot and sweet.
This time of year I can't help but miss home. What makes someplace "home"? There's the cliche that home is where your heart is? Do you think it is true?
I left home 6 years ago -- at the ripe old age of 18 -- and haven't been back since -- except for a weekend here and there -- and a few (not many) spring breaks.
And yet -- those acres of land are home. I can close my eyes and tell you where every tree is; what colors the grasses are in different pastures; who planted what trees 150 years ago; what it smells like now in April, in May, in June. I lived there from the ages of 5 to 18 and that is home.
So is it my stubborn ideal of home that causes me to never be able to rest or feel at home -- in Pittsburg or here in Dallas -- or is there something that really attaches me to there?
What is home to you?
cd
I left home 6 years ago -- at the ripe old age of 18 -- and haven't been back since -- except for a weekend here and there -- and a few (not many) spring breaks.
And yet -- those acres of land are home. I can close my eyes and tell you where every tree is; what colors the grasses are in different pastures; who planted what trees 150 years ago; what it smells like now in April, in May, in June. I lived there from the ages of 5 to 18 and that is home.
So is it my stubborn ideal of home that causes me to never be able to rest or feel at home -- in Pittsburg or here in Dallas -- or is there something that really attaches me to there?
What is home to you?
cd
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