Loves, I’ve been thinking a lot about home this week. As you may know, I split my time between LA (where I lived for 15ish years) and TX (where I’m from). I’m aware that I am completely blessed to be able to make a crazy, nomadic life work–and blessed to be able to feel at home in different places. It’s not always easy: there’s travel, there are times when either place doesn’t seem to fit, and times when I miss wherever I happen not to be. But overall? I love it. So what exactly does home mean? And what are we building when we talk about home?
I think we can all agree that home is more than a house. For me, home can be a person, a place, or just the feeling of acceptance and support. Where my mom is, that’s home. Cities I love. Friends that love me. Certain classes, certain teachers (yes, both acting and Soul Cycle–I am a cliche). Even this site, as we get to know each other and you support me! Houses are a part of that (I’m getting to watch some dear friends put together their dream house, and it’s thrilling how much it feels like home to all of us), but the feeling is so much more important than the physical. Throughout our lives, I think that we are all looking for home, that place of respite that feeds you. Home can bring you comfort. Support you. Inspire you. Be a place where you’re comfortable stating your needs, and a place where they’re met. It’s a place where people miss you, where you’re wanted, where people care. And loves, that’s so much more than four walls.
So as I’ve been in various places I call home this week, and talked to people who are home to me, I can’t help but think about how lucky I am to have so much home–and what we can do to be home to each other. If home is simply a place where we’re good to each, could we make everyone feel at home? And what would it look like if we did? Is it possible for us to make a home for all of us?
I’d love to know your thoughts on home, on how it makes you feel, on what you think about making each other feel at home!
Wishing us all a week of home and amazing shoes! XO RA
