Home.

Bo and I are sitting in the den around La Familia and listening to the Laura Gibson album "La Grande" which you can listen to for free on NPR's lovely website: http://www.npr.org/player/v2/mediaPlayer.html?action=1&t=1&islist=false&id=144623414&m=144700695

This home has shaped me in so many ways and has taught me much about the magic and beauty of community and sharing life with so many different people.

Brant has lived here for over five years, and I have lived here for a year and a half. I hear that this home is very hard to leave or recover from, meaning that nothing is ever quite as good or magical. Not that all life stages don't have their purpose and beauty, but here there seems to be something special and unable to be fully replicated. People have tried, and it's never the same magic. I suppose when we leave we will just have to take all of the lessons learned to our new homes, never trying to recreate the past but always seeking to find the magic in the present. We shall see how we do.

For now we have 6 months and counting to soak up the light of the kitchen in the morning and the house dinners with good friends, bottles of wine, and rich food.