Home: Without Walls

Image from "Where is Home?"by Pico Iyer on TED.com

Although I'm a little embarrassed to admit it, I recently discovered the greatness of TED talks. Late in the game, I know. Nonetheless, I'm obsessed now. I keep starting my sentences with phrases like this, "Today I watched a TED talk on...." or "I heard this on one of the TED talks I listened to" and "Oh creativity? I just saw a TED talk on that." You know the girls who frequently start sentences referencing crafts, recipes, or styles they find on Pinterest (I am totally one of those girls, too)? Yeah, it's like that.

So here it goes: In "Where is home?" Pico Iyer starts off by simply asking where do you come from? To name a few points from this talk, he elloquently discusses how today home cannot be tied to one piece of land or one structure with four walls and a door. Rather, one's sense of home is less about "a piece of soil and more about a piece of soul." This struck a cord in me. Even more, I can identify with Iyer's claim that this sense of "home" is where you are the best version of yourself, where you are grounded, and where you are safe.

I began thinking of who and what make up bits of my soul to create my sense of home.

   

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