and the living is easy

my sister and her family are unable to use the first couple of days of their condo rental at the beach, so the rents and i are keeping it from going to waste! i'm so lucky in the family department. this from the porch of brett's waterway cafe:


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there's talk lately about the meaning of "home." what makes home? lots of songs jump into my head. there's robert frost's rather cynical "home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in."

geography and familiarity contribute, but some (david!) are good at making themselves at home (at least to some extent) in a different hotel room every night. and did edward spend fifteen years in prison without making some kind of home there?

we say "make yourself at home" to mean take care of yourself here, find what you need, relax, claim something here. and is home restricted to a dwelling? i feel at home in asheville or here on fernandina beach.

questions, questions. what does home mean? i don't know, but i'm hoping to become increasingly turtle-like for the next few years -- able to take my sense of home with me -- without taking all the stuff!