Jun 20, 12:03 am
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Because I joined late, I’m trying to catch up! This page is for the “home” prompt. I’m feeling a little lazy tonight, so here is what I said about this page in my blog:
——Home…a subject near and dear to my heart these days. I never realized how much I loved my house, or my hometown, until I decided to leave it. From the moment that James joined the Navy until the day I left Charleston- 10 months later- I tried to dig my heels into the present, make time slow down. It will be a long time before we own a home again.
I know…a home is more than the four walls that surround me. Home is where the heart is. Home is where the Navy sends us. Etc, etc, etc. But there is something so moving about eating breakfast every day in the kitchen where you saw your child take his very first steps. Even the dents on the walls and the dings in the doors become a part of that home, because you remember the life and energy that caused those imperfections. A home is steeped in the history of the family that lives within its walls. It’s a comfort that you can sink into.
Tomorrow, my father (Power of Attorney in hand) will be signing over my home to its new owner. How I feel about that changes from moment to moment-relieved, melancholy, heartsick, ready. Yes, sometimes I feel ready. Because despite all of the things that we gave up (the house, the comfort of family and friends living nearby, my full-time job, the roots we’d laid down), there is something that I find even more beguiling than the idea of home…and that is the idea of a journey. A journey is a great big leap of faith. Hoping that you will find a soft place to land. Knowing that you may end up regretting it, but fearing that not following your instincts would be the biggest tragedy of all.
I want to evolve to the point where I am secure enough in myself to feel at home anywhere I go. I am definitely not there yet. Only when I have that confidence, that sense of being centered and grounded in my own soul, will I truly feel that I have experienced my homecoming. —-
**I started this page off with the terra cotta paint, then added some white gesso, then celery paint. I did a bit of spotting with Portfolio watersoluble oil pastels in yellow and yellow-orange, and rubbed it in. Then I played around with the images- one of my mantle and one of a mysterious door. The page took off from there, and I added some stamping, stickers and journaling.
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