Home-A state of being

A state of being

 
“Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.”
― James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room

What is home? The soil colours, the vernacular currents, the domestic conversations, the middle class longings? Or perhaps it’s the picket fences covering lush neatly mowed lawns in front of wooden A-frame houses. Ultimately, in my mind at least, home is where a sense of belonging resides – an affinity and kinship to a perceived safe-space. However different our walks of life — what contrast there is between an English aristocrat’s mansion and an Indian tea-sellers shack, between the babushka’s kitchen and a welder’s workshop — we are united by our deep desire for a literal or figurative place to call home.

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