I'm sure that I've been pondering lots of good things to say for when I next post, but I can't remember any of them. Maybe by typing here things will come back to me
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Home is where the heart is. Unfortunately, in my present home Clara has just spilled an entire bottle of laundry soap all over the floor. I had some deep thoughts but alas they will have to wait until after I clean up the great soap spill of 2008.... ~Ceci
it's homes for the international child/grown up, isn't it? I wonder whether traveling a lot, and being slightly an outsider makes it easier or harder to make a place a home? We did it too, and my mum always said "home is where your suitcase is". Maybe home is different to where you have solid roots.
I always look a little perturbed when someone asks me where I'm from, and then I say "well, I live in xxxx" wherever that happens to be, and most people don't notice that I haven't answered the question.
They may assume that where you live is where you've been living since birth (or within acceptable cultural distance.
Otherwise they may assume that you are from where you live regardless that you are actually from a remote tribe in the amazon and have only been living in Royston Vasey for a month.
It's the last one that confuses me most. People are always confusing though so I try and not let it bother me.
To me home is the place that is mine. I have my routine, I have my place to be, I know the area...I can feel at home easily anywhere really. What's mostly needed is that when you come nack from being away you have that lovely feeling of being where you belong.
Those are the main ones. I've had other transitory homes as wel. My aunts home used to be one, but she's moved...though people tend recreate their previous organisational structures so it still feels familiar. Not the same though.
Ever come back to a place you left behind? When it isn't yours anymore..isn't that weird?
Nottingham used to make me feel terribly depressed when I went back, but I think my last year there did a lot to make it NOT my home, so it has taken quite some time to appreciate visiting it as a destination, as opposed to thinking about it as a failed home.
funny, i've been thinking about this a bit myself lately. Obviously, because of having come back to a place that could be home after about a year away. A year away in a place where I lived for a previous year, so that is a potential home, too. I won't get into whether a place in China could become home - since I could never be accepted as a native by the locals, that makes it hard no matter how I feel about it
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I always look a little perturbed when someone asks me where I'm from, and then I say "well, I live in xxxx" wherever that happens to be, and most people don't notice that I haven't answered the question.
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They may assume that where you live is where you've been living since birth (or within acceptable cultural distance.
Otherwise they may assume that you are from where you live regardless that you are actually from a remote tribe in the amazon and have only been living in Royston Vasey for a month.
It's the last one that confuses me most. People are always confusing though so I try and not let it bother me.
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Ever come back to a place you left behind? When it isn't yours anymore..isn't that weird?
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