Home

Home means many different things to people. Home can be a place (a house, a city or state). Home can be with the people you love... "where the heart is". Home can be something within yourself that makes you feel as though all is good and okay. Or any combination of those things.

I've recently gone through a change of home, moving from one place to another. Having moved around a lot as a kid, to me the idea of home is very abstract. I still consider Hawai'i my home though I haven't lived there since I was 19. I think of my grandparents' house as home because it has been a constant my entire life. And I am also able to feel at home wherever I live.

We just moved into a wonderful 3-bedroom house. This is my first time as an adult living in a proper house, rather than an apartment. I feel the desire to settle in here a little more. I feel the desire, more than ever before, to share our home with guests. So far much of my focus has gone into creating a SPACE. With visitors in mind, my intention has been to create a place for those who enter (including those of us who live here) to feel light and grounded and comfortable.

We hosted Thanksgiving here, just over two weeks after moving in. We had 9 adults and 4 little kids for a two-night sleepover, and I prepared my first Thanksgiving meal. It was incredible to be able to provide that space for our loved ones to gather and to create memories. It really felt like home.

This holiday season, consider your notions of home. How can you feel at home in any given situation? How can you bring a piece of your "home" with you into the things you do?