Do you have another place? Somewhere you absolutely love to visit as often as you can?
Maybe it’s a park. Maybe it’s a friend’s house. Maybe it’s a place where someone you love lives — in another city, another state, or even another country. It’s that other place where you feel at home. Do you have a place like that?
I have a place like that. For more than a decade, I’ve loved visiting Durham, North Carolina, as often as I can. Initially, I visited because some of my longtime friends had moved there. But over time, I realized it was a place where I could put down roots of my own. I have a large community there now, with friendships I’ve developed over the years, favorite local haunts, and places in nature that I’ve come to love.
Recently, my favorite musician had a concert there. I enjoyed seeing a social media video in which he shared that he’d spent the day exploring a local park near the river and had gotten totally lost. Then he added, “Anyway, it turns out this Durham is excellent. That was my first impression of Durham — that it’s safe to get lost here because you’ll always find your way home.”
That feels so true to me, too.
So where is your place like that? A place that feels close to you even when you’re not physically there?
