Summer is often a time of transition and the idea of "home" can become elusive. Where IS home? How important is it to be home? I guess the answer to those questions will vary with each one of us.
For me, I will always be FROM Saskatchewan even though I have lived away from there 3 times longer than I actually lived there. Apparantly, where you lived when you were 11 is where you feel at home.
For one of my daughters, there's going to be a different house for her family this summer. Ben, her husband has finished Med School and will they will be moving to Kingston Ontario for a couple of years. It probably won't ever be HOME for them but they will make it homey.
For another of my daughters, home is changing from Courtenay BC to Victoria in a month or so. Not all their children are happy about the transition- one in particular is feeling somewhat displaced by the plan to move.
Another daughter has made a new home near San Francisco. She can make any place home.
The home my husband and I live in is not their home. None of them grew up there and have no emotional attachment to the house except that's where we live and that's where they bring their children, who attach no other place to Grandpa and Grandma.
Where is your home? Are you home? Are you glad to be away from home? Do you wish you were home? Are you making your own home? Is TWU as much home as anywhere right now? We'd love to hear where you actually are, where do you wish you were, are you loving where you are.
It's a great weekend coming up weather-wise. BBQ's will be out this weekend, I'm sure. It will be at our place.
These were the musings in the bookstore today.
Naomi
When I was living on campus my first year of Trinity, I would go 'home' for the weekends. But on Sunday, I said I was going 'home' - which meant back to campus. It was an odd shift of having two homes, to which I was always both leaving and returning to. Now that I am married, my home is where ever my husband is, which has been overseas and few different places in Canada. But, I love coming back to Trinity, and feeling that same sense of being 'home'.
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