Home

Not a concept we really question much, there are plenty of sayings that seem to capture the concept of ‘home’ and sum it all up neatly. ‘Home is where the heart is’ is a popular one, it makes a lot of sense because ‘home’ is a feeling AND a location, and that’s important, because if that above phrase is true than you could be at home wherever you were, as long as you travelled with your heart (proverbially speaking of course). But I think you can see or better yet, feel why it isn’t that simple, and why the words house and home seem so intertwined, even if they do denote different things. Someone made an interesting suggestion to me recently, he said that if you move away from ‘home’ and move anywhere else, just once even, suddenly you cease to be ‘at home’ anywhere ever again. Even, perhaps, if you were to return and try to make a home in the same place you started. Someone else said: home is where people understand you, someone else said: home is the place where, when you go there, they have to take you in. And in so many ways it is possible to ‘go home again’ to the place where they have to take you in no matter what, but I question whether it can ever truly be completely ‘home’ again. The places you go, travel back with you, and you’re feeling about home is forever changed. Someone else said, home is where life’s undress rehearsal happens, where the conventions of the world are thrown off, and maybe that explains the locations of homes, and the possibility of having more than one home. But it still makes me wonder, if two homes, are the same as no home.