There's no place like home

There’s no place like home! It really doesn’t matter if it is a huge house with multiple rooms or a simple one-room cottage… it is still your home. The furnishings could be the best money can buy or Goodwill rejects… they are still the things that make your house your home. There’s no place like home.

We love to travel. We are fortunate that we have been able to travel seeing a lot of this world of ours. The one thing that I’ve discovered though is that no matter how great your accommodations might be there isn’t anything like slipping between the sheets of your own bed. The spirit inside simply sighs with relief because it has found a great place of comfort… a place called home.

As Dorothy from “The Wizard of Oz” states near the end of that wonderful movie, “There’s no place like home. There’s no place like home.” And she is right on … there really isn’t. The Land of Oz was a wonderful and magical place full of color and great people, but it wasn’t Dorothy’s home… a simple farmhouse in Kansas (where everything is in black and white) which was shared with her family and a couple of lovable, caring farmhands. There’s no place like home.

Regardless of language or cultural background home is always at the center of life. It is essential to the ebb and flow of existence. It isn’t the four walls that make up the house that are important, but the people with whom life is shared. The “stuff” is just that stuff! While one hates to lose the things, which causes us to remember of times past it is always the people… the important, loving, caring people who make a house a home.

I believe that I am the happiest when I get to share my home with others, but my spirit literally sings when family comes to visit. It probably is true for you as well. And, if you listen very carefully you will probably hear the walls break forth with laughter as friends or family gather together in your home.

Quote for today: “Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam, Be it ever so humble, there’s no place like home.” John Howard Payne