The goal in baseball is to go on a journey around the bases and return back home again. Sometimes you hit a home run and make it all the way around based on your own extraordinary efforts. But more often you depend on others to make the hits that allow you to progress around the bases. As often as not, we need others to help us get home.
Who helps you to make it to a place of home?
Monarch butterflies need the warmth of southern lands to survive the winter, but the caterpillars which are their young depend on milkweed plants that thrive in more northern climates. And so they migrate as much as 2500 miles, seeking the dual homes that their lives depend on.
How might your sense of home be split between two or more locations?
Veteran’s Day is celebrated on the anniversary of the day when the armistice was signed for Second World War. We honor those who have served in the military at the very same time that we celebrate the possibility of peace.
Who do you personally honor as a veteran and a peacemaker?
Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.
―James Baldwin
How would you describe that condition of being at home?
Whether by fire, flood, eviction or tornado, it is a grievous loss to lose a home. The loss of what is familiar and dear can unmoor us from ourselves, leave us feeling as if our center is gone, that we are drifting, unstuck from a sense of self.
What has helped you find your way back home after a disrupting loss?
