Meaning of Home (2024)

I began my exploration of the idea of home by recalling the most striking recent memory of having heard the word “home.” The voice that came to me first was that of a flight attendant over the PA of a plane saying, “Let us be the first to welcome you home,” as we approached our destination. I was reminded of how home has a magnetic effect, drawing us in from one end but also pushing us off to explore the unfamiliar. In Call of home, I consider how sometimes we only seem to notice the pull of home when we’ve found ourselves far from it, when home is a place beyond what we can see and when it takes a long journey to find our way back. 

From there, I reflected more on what it truly means to be home. Home may initially appear to be a house or a physical place, but Changeable and dynamic observes that the arc of time brings change to everything physical. Yet perhaps change need not unravel our sense of home, as our true homes are infinite - we are home in our bodies, on this earth, in this time, in this universe, and maybe beyond.

Pushing this notion further, Always and already there considers if our journeys to find ourselves, our homes, and the promise of some end are actually a search for something already with us and perhaps already in ourselves. After all, the end of the rainbow is everywhere and nowhere - it is circular.