Home Is Where Your Life Happens

A couple weeks ago, I wrote a journal entry, Home Is Knowing, about home as a state of being. Home is where the heart is, and my heart is always where I am. Home is where your life happens and my life is happening on the road right now.

Tonight, I’m at home in a cabin in New Mexico. Gracie is tucked in by my side as I write this journal entry. I’m in unfamiliar territory. At 4,000 feet above sea level the terrain is rough and rocky. My cabin is on Kansas Lane in the campground which seems fitting as the wind whips outside. Tonight, this is where my life is happening.

I do believe that home is where my life happens yet tonight my heart is longing for place. I think Gracie is too. I’m missing the familiarity of my house; of sleeping in my own bed just three steps from the bathroom in the middle of the night. I’m yearning for the smell of coffee brewing in the morning and the way the sunlight floods the kitchen, and working in the comfort of my studio. I miss the ease of letting Gracie out the back door and our walks to the village. It seems like she’s missing these things, too.

When I left on this adventure I was fulfilling a dream to travel and see more of this amazing country. I’ve certainly done that…and there is much more still. Now though, I’m ready. I’m ready to return to the familiar. To the place I call home and all the people there that I love. I’m eager to return to the place where life happens most of the time for me.

I don’t know about you, but travel changes me. Each time I return from an adventure, the experiences and places and people become a part of me in some way. It’s not always obvious at first and while it may take a little time for all of this adventure to integrate into my life, I know that life will happen in new ways now in the place I call home.

Peace and blessings,

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