Home, of course, isn’t really about houses at all. Despite my interest in “home” as a located place (indeed, places) the real essence of home is a feeling.
What words would you connect with feeling home? For me I would say safe is the primary one and belonging the secondary one. Without these two feelings, a place won’t feel like home even if I call it that name for convenience and live there for years (as with the place I lived from 8 to 18). And you might feel a sense of both safety and belonging somewhere temporary — I had that experience at my first Green Gathering, for example — but it would be odd to call it home if it was only your base for a few days. So, semi-permanence is probably the third quality I would add. Please feel free to add your own feeling words that qualify a place as “home” in the comments! I’m not going to claim universality, and you’re of the nomadic sort, you might skip the last one and have others.
I’m in the proces…
