My relationship with my husband is my primary home, no doubt about that. As long as he is by my side, I can deal with pretty much any environment.
That said, I can see what rb is saying here...
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Originally Posted by roachboy
what's different about here is that i also feel some strange connection to the terrain, to the coastline, to this particular coastline and the ways of thinking and being that are of a piece with it.
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I was born and raised in the Seattle area, and I feel more safe and at peace when I know that those particular mountains, trees, and ocean surround me. I like knowing that the Pacific coast is all that lies to the west, that Oregon and California are directly south, and that British Columbia is north, on the way to Alaska. I have also spent significant time in central Pennsylvania and Iceland, and I feel washes of nostalgia whenever I visit those places and feel a connection drawing me down towards the earth... but I have always felt more isolated in both of those places, a feeling I have never had in the Northwest.
But geography and nostalgia do not add up to "home," and that is a lesson that I have had to learn after the last 10 years on the move. Even when I hanker for a place (feel homesick)... once I arrive there, I find myself unready to face the reality of its changes. Or rather, I realize that I have changed significantly and have to reacquaint myself with the place all over again. It's a strange phenomenon...