December 20, 2019

FEELING  AT  HOME

Feeling at home - 

having a sense of home - 

can only be known - in the heart – 

at Christmas time – or when we 

come home for a funeral or for 

a wedding or after a divorce 

or a deep inner hurt – felt when 

sitting in a soft chair - or around 

the kitchen table in t-shirts  - 

or seeing a black and white photo – 

or a diploma on the wall - or 

when walking around the old 

neighborhood. We pause. We stop.

We know.  We breathe. We realize 

we’re comfortable as we suck

in a breath of old air.

We’ve been here before.

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2019
Painting: Early Sunday Morning
by Edward Hopper