Commentary: We are always on some detour, and always on our way home. But as the birds remind us, that word — “home” — is both a verb and a noun.
“Where do you call home?” a reporter once asked me in an interview for her newspaper.out of IowaThen, I explained that I’d lived in Chicago for most of my life but was slowly migrating back to Iowa the whole time. We lived in Hyde Park on Chicago’s South Side for six years, then moved west to Oak Park, on the city-suburb border, for six years, and then to Glen Ellyn, a western ‘burb, for another six years.
I first came across this sense of home 30 years ago in a field studies course on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota. In a sweat lodge, Francis White Lance, a medicine man, shared a core belief:Home as relationship — with birds and bugs and rivers and rocks, and other people. The phrase serves as a kind of closing prayer in Lakota ceremonies and connotes a home that is both physical and spiritual.
could mean. This paradox suggests why that dull, flat, beautiful state now serves as my trailhead for a book of
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