The sun sets on another day…
Sunset was full of clouds, but the sky really wanted to give out some color. The light show that came just made me feel good all over. I enjoyed it and then smiled as I drove home.
As I was writing this my entire focus changed. My opening words shifted my entire approach. The idea of home is incredibly unique. I’ve talked about it before because I never really had a home as much as I had a place to stay throughout my entire life as one school year ended I knew that the next year I would be in another school. Perhaps I would have new friends and perhaps not. The idea of home was only the place that I spent my summers with my grandparents. It was there that there was peace, it was there that I felt safe. It was there that I learned and avoid it the issues that should have befallen me.
As I define home now it is not only a place to stay but is a place with good memories. Where I came tonight has no memories, and the only homes I have had where my grandparent’s house, the house I lived in in Lexington and raised the children in, and the house in Michigan that was built to be perfect. Everything else was just a house.
If you have a home, don’t take it for granted. Home is where your heart feels safe and I could live in a box if only my heart felt safe. If you don’t have a home I’m sorry, but it is out there. Don’t give up looking, and find a home in the safety of your heart.
Now some people will read this and not understand. That’s OK. But others will read this and they will know and as they do perhaps they will find a home or make their home better. Keep being you and find the courage to do the right thing, no matter what.
Sleep sweet, love life, and home home on the range…