At Home, Elsewhere

learning how to be at home

  • Change is Coming…

    Change is Coming…

    I have been a little quiet these days, because I’ve been busy with other things but I am still here – and I have something exciting coming up! I need to wait about two weeks before I tell you, but don’t worry. I have something more to share with you in the mean time. Every…

  • Owning Your Journey

    Owning Your Journey

    Recently I have taken a step towards my new life, and it tired me out a little bit. That’s why I haven’t been writing. But sometimes we need to do these things. Although I’m a person who doesn’t really like to work too hard, it’s my habit and so it has taken me a while…

  • At Home, Elsewhere

    At Home, Elsewhere

    And so on the final day of July, I share with you the beginning of my story. I wondered whether to still do it or not. A lot of things have changed in my life since I started this blog, and I am not afraid to change my mind. But something within me knows that…

  • Between My Breaths

    Between My Breaths

    I forgot to write yesterday because I’d gotten sick and today I’m still getting through it. I often ask myself why I get the common cold every now and then. I don’t seem to get it during stressful periods of my life, when I feel the need to remain switched on and alert. However, very…

  • The Song of Home

    The Song of Home

    It’s back to quiet mornings by the beach, even if the sky is a little heavy. There’s always someone out there testing the waves, freshening themselves up in the salt water. Even if I don’t go inside, I breathe in the scent of the ocean and I appreciate the atmosphere. I close my eyes and…

  • Differences Draw Us Closer

    Differences Draw Us Closer

    The thing I love about living in my hometown is the slower pace of life, and the way that I feel so far away from all the action that’s happening in the world. It’s just not the same anywhere else. Before, I found it to be a little stale and boring, but now I find…

  • Blooming in the Winter

    Blooming in the Winter

    As I settle back into my old routine, my sleep is disturbed again. The first few nights after I got back to Australia, I was exhausted and sleep was like a silent heaven. But now that I am a little more rested, my mind is turning like clockwork again and my dreams are active. I…

  • I Left Her in Japan

    I Left Her in Japan

    After a few days of rest, I already feel the momentum building for the new direction that my life is about to take. I’m no longer wandering around, not sure of what I want. I know what I want, in fact I know exactly what I want, and that requires the revelation of a different…

  • Creating a New Familiar

    Creating a New Familiar

    I slept very well the first night that I arrived back, and woke up early in the morning. It was still dark. I sat in my bed, because I’d heard something that I hadn’t heard in a long time: silence. After a while, as the light began to rise into a pale grey sky, the…

  • Finding Yourself in the Crowd

    Finding Yourself in the Crowd

    For the first time in a long time, I am truly craving to go back to Australia. I grew up being surrounded by the bush, not by people. My hometown is small, my home country is vast and fairly empty. At night outside it would be pitch dark and silent. I find that many places…