Where do you feel at Home?

Where do you feel at home?

I started wondering this because, well I don’t know, I’m just curious. Most people consider home where they grew up. I never felt the place I grew up was home, it was just where I was born.

I realized for myself there are three places that feel like home-Yosemite National Park, Longboat Key, Florida, and inside my heart.

It’s not that I spent a lot of time in Yosemite or Longboat, but they are places where I have deep connections to the land and good memories of connecting with others.

Feeling at home in my heart is a relatively new thing for me. It has come about because I am physically living someplace I don’t want to be. The gift this has given me is finding that sense of home in my heart. Now it goes with me everywhere, like a turtle shell.

The answer to the question was surprising and comforting.

I don’t know why I like knowing that I have multiple places that feel like home. I don’t feel a need to be there all the time- I just like knowing they exist.

Especially the one in my chest.