As usual, I am spending my summer at home: at my home on Martha’s Vineyard, that is. Off season (as we like to call it), I’m at my other home, in London. And for the past three years, in the winter, I have worked in Cambodia, a place where, quite inexplicably, I also feel very much at home.
I was raised in New York. I have raised my two sons in London. One still lives there, the other now calls Boston home. And Boston is, probably (though you’d have to ask him yourself), the place where my husband most thinks of as home, even though he has lived with me in London for nearly 25 years.
My family and I are among a growing population of people for whom the concept of home is fluid and somehow intangible. People often ask me where home is. I think about, and even worry about, how to answer that question quite a lot. And, not surprisingly, it is an important theme which runs through much of my writing.
And so I was thrilled to find this recent TED talk on the subject of home given by the writer, Pico Iyer. It speaks for itself, and he speaks for many of us. If this is a subject which concerns you at all, I’d love to hear what you think about this:
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