There Is No Place Like Home…

I’ve noticed at different moments in my life a wonderful sense of being at home. It is a warm familiar comforting feeling sense that overcomes me during which I find myself instantly relaxed mind, body and spirit. When I visit the communities I’ve lived in as an adult I have this sense. Being next to my sister brings it too. When I am at home with my wonderful cats and husband it is home to me. When I am with my parents and in laws I feel at home. I have a dear group of girlfriends I’ve known for over 20 years and when we are together I feel very much at home. My old college roomy who is like another sister brings this feeling when we visit one another too. These are moments I savor when the sensation over comes me.

Recently I had the wonderful opportunity to be with some relatives from my maternal grandfather’s side for a reunion lunch and I felt at one moment very much at home in the midst of people who I’ve known all of my life. It was surprising to experience this wonderful feeling sitting with them and very comforting as well. I don’t see them very often at all anymore but certainly did as a child. I had the fortune of growing up in a smaller community where people stayed so I was afforded the opportunity to have extended family around me often. I am very grateful to have grown up with this way too. There is a richness to my childhood as a result that so many of us today do not get to experience.

I decided at that lunch that I need to take more opportunity to connect with these wonderful relatives as many are aging and won’t be here to enjoy all that much longer. There truly is no place like that feeling of being at home.

What opportunities in your life allow you to feel at home? How can you cultivate more opportunities to experience this phenomenon?