Home
Home, defined in the dictionary as being comfortable and at ease in a place or situation. Home is where the heart is meaning ones home will always be the place for which one feels the deepest affection, no matter where one is. Home sweet home used as an expression or ones pleasure or relief at being in or returning to ones own home. Have you ever found yourself away from the only home you have known only find you feel MORE at home somewhere else than you ever were before? Being back in my homeland of Nova Scotia after spending the winter in Nashville I find it interesting how my sense of home has shifted or should I say expanded. I’m amazed with the coping tools I have been equipped with to adjust to new surroundings and circumstances in Nashville. I believe much of it has to do with the co-writers I work with, my Canadian friends, my church Cornerstone, the friends I have made and God. Obviously creating a new sense of family and community has everything to do with feeling at home and I am thankful to have found this in Nashville. This now means I will always miss HOME whether I’m in Nova Scotia or in Nashville, but at the same time, I get to have that rush of ‘coming home’ in two places. I’ll never forget my roots, as they do tend to show a little more in Nashville then in Nova Scotia as I have yet to find a hairdresser in Nashville. My American friend Jonn Hamlin told me that I will develop two accents and that when I travel between homes I will be told I have an American accent in Canada and a Canadian accent in America. Well he was right, as I’ve noticed while being home in Nova Scotia I am calling pop, soda and I find myself saying ‘Yes Mam’ a lot. So while I’m home in Nova Scotia I guess I will be missing my home in Nashville in fact I KNOW I am. A song is in there somewhere.
