Read at least 3 students blog short stories about ‘home’ and make a list of the common shared assumptions, values and stories that you find. Post this list on your blog.

I read quite a few of our short stories about home this week. I know we only had to read three, but I was enjoying them so much, I didn’t stop at that.

From what I read, one major theme jumped out at me: Home is not necessarily one place. Sure, sometimes our feelings and understandings of what ‘home’ means to us converge around one particular meeting spot, but what seems to be more relevant to us is not the where or what of ‘home’ but the who. It is the people (or animals) that revolve around us, traveling through life that build our understanding of what feeling ‘home’ means. The people we associate with home are not the ones who have made our days difficult, but the ones who have made us feel safe, included, understood and loved. Loved above all.

Is it too cheesy to say that ‘home’ and ‘love’ are synonymous?