tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3333231151096113443.post5958778817125378222..comments2023-05-30T03:03:25.925-07:00Comments on Sojourner in Labrador: What is home?Jan Morrisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12727266796590751202noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3333231151096113443.post-51388932891220996122015-06-13T07:22:28.453-07:002015-06-13T07:22:28.453-07:00Hello Jan,
I too grew up as a military brat movin...Hello Jan, <br />I too grew up as a military brat moving every two years and had the same disconnection feelings, your blog is very interesting read. <br />You saw my 14yr old daughter, Julia Faith in June 2013 I believe and I now know the reasons why she needed you.<br />Would you please please email me at jennifer.mcnish@ns.sympatico.ca <br />LifeISgoodhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01108235735209118059noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3333231151096113443.post-52683205561612995752015-06-03T17:40:23.172-07:002015-06-03T17:40:23.172-07:00I know that feeling. It's lovely isn't it?...I know that feeling. It's lovely isn't it? I have felt that all over the east coast of Canada , felt it in Cornwall and in Dingle. That sounds crazy but it's true. Jan Morrisonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12727266796590751202noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3333231151096113443.post-36261002157578848202015-06-03T17:36:57.598-07:002015-06-03T17:36:57.598-07:00Thanks for coming by! Home seems to have hit home ...Thanks for coming by! Home seems to have hit home as topics go...Jan Morrisonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12727266796590751202noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3333231151096113443.post-76686354927972335872015-06-03T08:35:58.530-07:002015-06-03T08:35:58.530-07:00I would have to say here on the Edge is where my h...I would have to say here on the Edge is where my home is. When I came here 11 years ago and came down the ramp of the ferry I had this incredible visceral sense that this was now my home. I don't relate the sense of home to one person but to place and community. Of course Ireland is my home too but it does not extract the intensity of emotion as it once did from me.<br /><br />When I walk on the shore at night, it floods me. Home. This sense of I am right where I'm supposed to be.<br /><br />XO<br />WWWWisewebwomanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15281689872840844191noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3333231151096113443.post-61366370097600611482015-06-02T16:37:43.539-07:002015-06-02T16:37:43.539-07:00Hi Jan, I am new to your blog as of last week. Rea...Hi Jan, I am new to your blog as of last week. Really enjoying it. I have had a nomadic past that still resonates today. Your comment, " this sense of dislocation is more of a spiritual than temporal feeling.", really hit a chord. I'll ponder it for some time. Thank you! LoriLorihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16072335335254023702noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3333231151096113443.post-8003549436192863592015-06-02T07:37:11.451-07:002015-06-02T07:37:11.451-07:00Billy Joel always has the right words (and voice)!...Billy Joel always has the right words (and voice)! I'd have to agree with this. Sometimes when folks ask me where my home town is I tell them 'the back of a station wagon'!Jan Morrisonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12727266796590751202noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3333231151096113443.post-42962830687925572142015-06-02T07:32:38.446-07:002015-06-02T07:32:38.446-07:00You were in Rossburn!!!! Man oh man, I'm jealo...You were in Rossburn!!!! Man oh man, I'm jealous. I have often wondered why we always went to my dad's home town and never my mother's. We did partly own a cottage on Lake Metigoshe near Deloraine so I guess that was one reason but other than that - why didn't my mother insist? I cannot figure it.<br />My sister and I both dream of our Aunt Grace's farmhouse when we have a 'home' dream. It was near Souris, Manitoba and a great place that we went to almost every year - so much more homelike than any of our places! Thanks for dropping by - I'm going to go visit you.Jan Morrisonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12727266796590751202noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3333231151096113443.post-81329648463948511642015-06-02T05:10:02.662-07:002015-06-02T05:10:02.662-07:00Interesting question, Jan! Billy Joel's You...Interesting question, Jan! Billy Joel's <i>You're My Home</i> puts it this way: <i>Wherever we're together, that's my home.</i>. I kind of understand that...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3333231151096113443.post-20542703263797705462015-06-01T15:24:55.679-07:002015-06-01T15:24:55.679-07:00I was in Rossburn just this winter, on my way to v...I was in Rossburn just this winter, on my way to visit friends in Oakburn (next door down the highway, of course). Friends there have always made me feel at home; it's a lovely area, agricultural but also with a good "old hippie" culture. <br />But I come from generations (about three on each parent's side) who lived in my home town, which is just down the road 15 or 20 minutes from where I live now. Which also feels like home, since it's so close. Of the many other places around Canada that I have lived, none felt like home and even now I feel slightly misplaced. I have recurring dreams of returning to two places there where I spent a lot of time as a child, and am always so happy and excited in the dreams.Blondi Blathershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15656970490122824720noreply@blogger.com