What “home” means to you beyond four walls—whether it’s someone you love, a ritual you return to, or a memory that still fuels you today.
I’ve stopped feeling nostalgic for a particular place on the globe.
Home is now a feeling of safety
What I want is a sense of belonging, a warm sense of happy melancholy. It’s that feeling where you’re sad knowing you’re exactly where you want to be, but you also know it’s going to pass.
Like the first time you taste really good gelato, or bite into a warm cookie right out of the oven – you know the feeling’s fleeting, and that’s a little sad, but it’s also the most beautiful, wonderful thing.
That’s what home is to me.
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This article is part of The Human Collective. Each week we take a prompt and create a playlist and accompanying articles. This week we were wondering when did you last laugh out loud? Check out the playlist: Songs That Remind You of Home Learn more about The Human Collective here.
About the Curators
Otis Galloway
My name is Otis Galloway, and I am a beautiful mess.
- I believe in music as a powerful agent of healing.
- I believe a cassette mixtape can carry powerful emotional gravity that tells stories that span generations, worlds and universes.
- I believe in travel, love, cooking, street food, cold beer and gelato.
- I believe in conversations that go until the sun comes up.
- I believe love comes in a multitude of forms.
- I believe in large kitchens and cooking huge dinners for friends.
- I believe we have so much to learn from one another.
- I believe in growing more hemp, cannabis and bamboo.
- I believe we should say, ‘I Love You’ more often.
- I believe we need more justice for the people.
- I believe we can do better, and should do better.
- I believe in a diverse, colourful world full of happy, realized, loving people.
- I believe gyoza is love.
- I believe in musicto.
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