Wednesday’s Words of Wisdom (And Whimsy)

Posted on December 30, 2025 under Wednesday’s Words of Wisdom with no comments yet

Cheers to the year ahead.

 

Home for the holidays. Where is home? Here’s a little poem that I wrote about the notion of home.

Home

When we’re young, we live at home,

With mom and dad, and sis and bro,

We’re well protected under a dome,

From wind and rain and sleet and snow.

 

We know our house, each nook and cranny,

The common smells, the frequent scents,

If we’re lucky, visits from granny,

Her wisdom and everything it meant.

 

We love our home, our comfort zone,

A place to be ourselves,

To be with others, or alone,

Storing memories on the shelves.

 

We grow up and move away,

To start a life anew,

We find our own place to stay,

We learn when the rent is due.

 

We get married, have kids, and buy a house,

Creating memories of our own,

Plugged toilets and the occasional mouse,

And a lawn that must be mown.

 

There’s always a pull, to get back home,

To spend time with mom and dad,

To walk on the beach with its waves and foam,

And all the good times we had.

 

Is home really about four walls,

A structure that we yearn?

Or is it the memories that we recall,

And the lessons that we learned?

 

Home, I believe, is where you’re at,

At any given time,

The address isn’t important, or the table where you sat,

Or the stairwell that you climbed.

 

Home is where your heart is,

Not the mortar or the bricks,

It’s not towels with “hers” or “his”,

Or the icing bowl you licked.

 

It’s the feelings you engendered,

So many years ago,

The generosity that was tendered,

In wind and sleet and snow.