Homesick.

[MelissaBaby]

all that i know about maine i learned from stephen king.
seedmsw like a lovely place to visit.

It is, especially Salems Lot.

 

[Wings]

I don't miss much from my previous home state. I guess I miss all the water, living by the river was fantastic but I don't miss it enough to move back. Home is here, wherever here is.

 

[MelissaBaby]

I don't miss much from my previous home state. I guess I miss all the water, living by the river was fantastic but I don't miss it enough to move back. Home is here, wherever here is.

People were joking about the saying that "home is where the heart is", but it really is true, isn't it?

 

[Wings]

People were joking about the saying that "home is where the heart is", but it really is true, isn't it?

I think so. I'm stubborn and maybe it's because I took the leap to move but this is home now. Ask me in 5 years and maybe the new will wear off, I doubt it though. I know it's right when I look forward to walking through the doorway every evening.

I've never been to Maine, I think your testament to missing it makes me want to experience it.

 

[La damnee elle la licorne]

 

[MelissaBaby]

I think so. I'm stubborn and maybe it's because I took the leap to move but this is home now. Ask me in 5 years and maybe the new will wear off, I doubt it though. I know it's right when I look forward to walking through the doorway every evening.

I've never been to Maine, I think your testament to missing it makes me want to experience it.

It's funny. When I was younger, I thought the greatest thing possible was to get the hell out of Maine. Now I long to get back there. How much of that feeling is legitimate love for the place and how much is apprehension about the future in general, which causes "home" to seem like a safe retreat? I'm glad to know that your leap landed you where it sounds like you were meant to be.

 

[MelissaBaby]

I quoted these because they all rung true for me. Some places I have lived I have never been back to not by want but because of practicality or difficulty getting there. Some I have so much entered a different phase of my life I am not sure I could revisit and have it be a good experience.

Every place I have lived has been home. I like new places, I like differences, even subtle, in culture.

However, When we moved here I said 'I am never moving again'. It's not the house ( g likes it a lot more than I do, I could take or leave it) or the area....it's a good area but I would like more trees . It's been some where that has been ours and a steady, static base.

Where is home? Home is where I can close the door and rest, with control over my environment and have my loved ones near me should they choose. It could be anywhere .

I'm rather embarrassed to say that before I moved, I had never been further from home than Massachusetts. Maybe 300 miles? I feel sometimes like someone who went from baby steps to running a marathon. So, your message that home is the place you make home is one that gives me some cheer.

 

[jaF0]

Opposite. I used to travel a lot. Did about 47 or 48 states before 30, though some were just drive throughs. From this point on, I don't expect to ever be more that 100-150 miles from here, usually 75 or less.

 

[Aquagal]

I will be going "home" in 12 days. It is an idyllic place between the beach and the vineyards, but the draw has always been the people. My heart resides here, and also, there.

 

[HisArpy]

The steam that comes off his back on a cold morning.

I had forgotten the steam rising from the body as he cools. Mostly because I don't lunge as the whole workout so they don't get that sweaty until under saddle. By then it's usually warm enough to hose off afterward so no steam.

It's interesting that people think it's a chore or work to be out in the round pen early in the am. It's not. The sound, the feeling, that SMELL of all the growing things on the morning air. Not much traffic, no lawnmowers, sirens, and few, if any, other sounds of humans.

Just me and him. And that soft thud thud thud. It soothes my soul.


(I started writing another book a few days ago. As a teaser; these things are going to be in there.)

 

[MelissaBaby]

I had forgotten the steam rising from the body as he cools. Mostly because I don't lunge as the whole workout so they don't get that sweaty until under saddle. By then it's usually warm enough to hose off afterward so no steam.

It's interesting that people think it's a chore or work to be out in the round pen early in the am. It's not. The sound, the feeling, that SMELL of all the growing things on the morning air. Not much traffic, no lawnmowers, sirens, and few, if any, other sounds of humans.

Just me and him. And that soft thud thud thud. It soothes my soul.


(I started writing another book a few days ago. As a teaser; these things are going to be in there.)

In a Maine winter, horses steam much more, I imagine.

When I was a kid,we moved a lot. For a couple years we lived next to a horse farm, and I fell in love with them, and the owners were kind enough to teach me to ride. It broke my heart when we moved. I dreamed of going to school to become a large animal veterinarian before things went off the track for me.

 

[La damnee elle la licorne]

 

[MelissaBaby]

Home can also be more than one place concurrently.

I think it must be incredible to have one place, one spot in the world which is 'home'. I think it must be a remarkable, comforting feeling. But home will always change because that place will be different in thirty years or sixty years potentially. The places that do not change are few and far between and by nature home to very few indeed, so that experience is extremely minority. Home being unchanging and always the home you knew is, I think a fallacy.

It's good to see beyond home, even if home is where you return . Home has some perspective the more you see.

Very well said, thank you. I don't think it is about home, per se, for me as much as its a symptom of anxiety about so much change in my life. Getting clean, moving to another state, staring school soon, it's all a bit much to take in.

 

[La damnee elle la licorne]

 

[Hard_Rom]

Was to young to really remember England when we left. Just 6. Still live in same area as I grew up. Just moved into the city. River though is still the same and enough woods around to walk in.

 

[Queersetti]

Wood smoke.
Low tide.
Pine trees.

You'd have loved the Mount Desert Island Forest Fire.

 

[Queersetti]

The steam that comes off his back on a cold morning.

Wait, what? Oh, you meant the horse.

 

[Queersetti]

Home is where the heart is.

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[pink]

Beautiful.

 

[Queersetti]

Beautiful.

Where is that, pink?

The one with the bridge looks like something from Lord Of The Rings.

 

[pink]

Where is that, pink?

The one with the bridge looks like something from Lord Of The Rings.

Multnomah Falls, Oregon.

I'm heading back in Sept, leaving Ohio. Going to be living in Washington.

 

[Queersetti]

Multnomah Falls, Oregon.

I'm heading back in Sept, leaving Ohio. Going to be living in Washington.

That's great. I hope you'll be very happy there.

 

[pink]

That's great. I hope you'll be very happy there.

Thank you so much. I lived there 15 years ago. Now that my parents are gone, I'm going back.

 

[ryan8558]

Hey, you're missing something, bro!

some bros just can't carry off an alt.

 

[jaF0]

The sound, the feeling, that SMELL of all the growing things on the morning air. Not much traffic, no lawnmowers, sirens, and few, if any, other sounds of humans.

Just me and ...

... nobody. I go for a 4-5 mile morning walk everyday and rarely see another human. Sometimes at a distance, or in a passing vehicle. I talk to the cows, dogs, birds, frogs, turtles, squirrels and any other critters I see along the way doing their things.

Sometimes I go for 3 or 4 days without seeing another human up close. Sometimes longer.