About The Journey Home
Orcas Island, WA, where I always feel like I’m home.
Well, I guess it’s happening . . . I’ve finally made the leap and created a blog.
I've thought about this for so long and have mostly been very successful at putting it off. But lately, some really lovely people have been encouraging me to go back to the one skill that I really think of as being truly mine.
There are a lot of things that I do, all with varying degrees of ownership and identity. Writing, for all of my life, has been the most "mine" thing of all the things I've done. Doing it with more intention and focus very much feels like turning down a road that you know will ultimately bring you home.
And in fact, the name of my blog is The Journey Home (it's t-j-h.com because the closest available choice was thejourneyho.me and I felt like The Journey Ho was just asking for problems).
Anyway, the blog is called The Journey Home because one of my most favorite quotes is by Herman Melville: "Life is a journey that's homeward bound."
All of our lives, we're angling for home. For a place where we're known and loved, a place that gives us belonging and identity, a place with people who miss us when we're not there. Home means a lot of varied things to us all and the roads we travel to get there are complicated, intimate, and sacred. Melville is so right--we spend all our lives journeying home. This blog examines that journey in all of its forms, both literal and metaphoric.
On Friday, I wrote a longer post on Facebook that I was excited about, I hit post, and then my computer, the internet, Facebook, or a vast conspiracy of the three, died and the post was eaten whole, never to be seen again. It was as if the Universe was saying, “stop posting long form on Facebook and just write a blog—I mean it!”
I channeled my frustration into the creation of this blog and now may I never turn back.
This will be a little bit real estate, a little bit life, and all the weird, wonky, wild ways that I look at the things, places, people, and life around me.