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How versatile, pliable, handy the word \u201chome.\u201d
Slippery as soap, foamy and comforting in a body way. 
It was someone else\u2019s room yesterday, but today, it has winked,
it has taken our toothbrushes into its interior.  Its name
rolls off our tongues after a day of being on the outside: 
\u201clet\u2019s go home.\u201d   The way of its shutters, the doors,
the morning jasmine, corners where the sun enters
and where it doesn\u2019t, the ways of home. Wherever beauty strikes,
that becomes a home, a place of alignment, shelter, a quiver of peace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We are pliable, something of wanderers.\u00a0\u00a0Those who are also
between places recognize us.\u00a0\u00a0The Dutch-Swedish-Kenyan
owner of our \u201chome,\u201d now settled in France, peered and asked me,\u00a0
\u201cBut do you really feel American?\u201d\u00a0\u00a0I could have said the easy no.
It forced me to say I wander by choice, at least partly because
I\u00a0am, at least partly, American. My complicated hybrid self
longs to constantly de-familiarize.\u00a0\u00a0My heart seeks its
kin, values, values, a parasol pine, a chance meeting with a kind stranger.
The creative need to refind a flowing fountain, to re-source,
to see what trouble I can find on the lost road. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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