Home is…
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- never quite the same, but eerily familiar despite the seemingly new plethora of apples in the grocery store, or the fact that this time, there are certain people you’ll never run into in town center
- a feeling rooted deep inside near the lower gut, fizzling up to the soul (wherever that seems to be)
- the serenity of doing nothing and having it be everything all at once
- when my eyes start to sting, for no apparent reason other than the biting cold–something I’ve yet to experience since last winter
- the open arms and ears of family, old friends
- sitting around in the family room (of another’s family), knowing it’s all intertwined, talking politics with new eyes but still really knowing that no matter where you are–the nation’s capitol or the bay state–it’s the same old debates, misconceptions, epiphanies
- riding in the car to your favorite bagel shop and getting your sandwich on whole wheat instead because you already ate a far crummier bagel that morning, wishing you had better planning skills, or at the very least, several more stomachs to help get you through the holidays
- the blare of christmas lights and smiles of losing trivia: knowing that Clara was the name of the little girl in the nutcracker; that even after all these years, you will NEVER remember the capitol of Montana or the best way to drive from Old Post Road through Wayland and finally to Newton Centre; but realizing that no matter what, you can still navigate at dusk, with the slight aid of the radio’s soundtrack, in order to reach the destination at hand–because by now, by this very time, you’ve just realized that’s all life really is anyhow: a roundabout route towards another place, another end, something more or less beautiful than where you’ll be today or tomorrow.
*Photo via Smithsonian Magazine
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