What does it mean to go home? To be home?

I was scanning the news headlines, and there was a sad theme developing, one that revolved around people being fearful, rightfully, to go home. 

In East Palestine, Ohio, the after-effects of poisonous chemicals are still causing illness, more than a mile away from the site of the derailment. 

In Turkey, more than a week after the horrifying earthquake and its after-shocks, people are wondering if they can go home, if they have a home, or where home will be, ever again. 

Amazon is working out a hybrid model; office employees have still been working from home. Not all of them want to leave the comfort (mental and physical) of their new normal.

There are still too many people living "unhoused" due to high rents in this country, many of them young families.

And for far too many college students, their feelings of being safely "at home" has been shattered by yet more gun violence. Some of them have experience active shooter situations twice in their young lives. 

For too many people, the idea of home is an illusion, a fairy-tale.

Take care,

C