Comments on: The Search for Home – Part 1: The Search Begins – by Jesse Wolf Hardin http://animacenter.org/blog/?p=468 Teaching Nature Awareness, Healing & Rewilding Tue, 23 Apr 2013 17:39:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Carla http://animacenter.org/blog/?p=468&cpage=1#comment-1891 Carla Fri, 23 Jan 2009 14:57:34 +0000 http://animacenter.org/blog/?p=468#comment-1891 As a child through my teens, I lived in many different places, traveling due to my mother's work. Home was basically where we parked the car. Now an older adult, with no family left, I have discovered what I always knew inside to be true. This incomparable world, the stones, water, trees, herbs and flowers of this world, its winds that fall and rise, its oceans that move at the bidding of the moon -- this is my home. It's my home because in the woods or mountains -- there I find peace -- those surroundings guide me inward to a deeper peace in myself. When intolerable weather (arthritis) causes me to be housebound, I find myself feeling homeless in truth. I long for temperate days when I can get out and be where I belong. Carla As a child through my teens, I lived in many different places, traveling due to my mother’s work. Home was basically where we parked the car.

Now an older adult, with no family left, I have discovered what I always knew inside to be true.

This incomparable world, the stones, water, trees, herbs and flowers of this world, its winds that fall and rise, its oceans that move at the bidding of the moon — this is my home. It’s my home because in the woods or mountains — there I find peace — those surroundings guide me inward to a deeper peace in myself.

When intolerable weather (arthritis) causes me to be housebound, I find myself feeling homeless in truth. I long for temperate days when I can get out and be where I belong.

Carla

]]> By: Dave http://animacenter.org/blog/?p=468&cpage=1#comment-1890 Dave Fri, 23 Jan 2009 14:37:12 +0000 http://animacenter.org/blog/?p=468#comment-1890 Home. The word evokes so many things in me. I've returned to the two places of my childhood only to be left feeling a stranger to them, as if who I am could not have come from them. But I did. Really looking forward to the rest of this. Dave Home. The word evokes so many things in me. I’ve returned to the two places of my childhood only to be left feeling a stranger to them, as if who I am could not have come from them. But I did.

Really looking forward to the rest of this.

Dave

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