Sometimes home was where I wasn’t – a place to go back to where I felt loved, accepted, safe and happy. A refuge. Where history was. Then it became where new history was developing and where old history existed.

Now home is where I choose it to be, whenever and however I decide to refer to it.

So now my home base is with hubby and pupster- still living the same values of yore that evolve over time – where I am loved, accepted, and love and create. A cosy, “gemuetlich”, fun and reliable place.

It’s also home of course where I grew up, developed my own unique personality and quirks alongside taking on tradition and customs of ancestors, where I formed my initial likes and preferences and where I moved to when I moved out of the family circle on my own two feet for the first time.

So the gratitude for today is that home can expand as family and life experiences expand. Somewhere I can continue to be my gemini self with ever changing thoughts, dreams, goals and aspirations, that express who I am and what is important to me, a place for immediate and extended family and friends to be- to meet – old, new and yet to be.