{"id":3332,"date":"2006-08-09T17:31:46","date_gmt":"2006-08-09T21:31:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yummy-wakame.com\/archives\/2006\/08\/09\/3332"},"modified":"2006-08-09T17:31:46","modified_gmt":"2006-08-09T21:31:46","slug":"homadic-sweet-nomadic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/2006\/08\/homadic-sweet-nomadic\/","title":{"rendered":"Homadic sweet nomadic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Iv&#8217;e spent my whole life moving from city to country looking for &#8220;home&#8221;. Some people spend their whole life searching for fame, or the love of their life or self discovery, and mine has always been home. It&#8217;s silly really, because I must have known inside where it is all along, and it&#8217;s something I could only start to see once I&#8217;d gotten rid of all my &#8220;stuff&#8221;. I tried collecting lots of stuff everywhere I&#8217;ve lived to make my living space cozy. Quite a few people special to me have loved time spent lazing and living in the homes I&#8217;ve created, but to me it felt contrived and at times I felt cramped.<\/p>\n<p>Lately I keep catching myself thinking, &#8220;&#8230; maybe I should run back and get changed into something at home first&#8221;, when I&#8217;m staying over at a friend&#8217;s home for a few days,  or, &#8220;Hrm&#8230; I think&#8230; home is in that direction.&#8221; when I&#8217;ve left my hotel room to find some lunch and gotten a bit lost. It makes me happy every time I catch myself doing it.<\/p>\n<p>I never felt it more acutely than when I did that walk across <a href=\"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/archives\/2005\/07\/22\/2689\" rel=\"external\">England<\/a>. On that very last day and I was all alone walking in the wilderness and hadn&#8217;t seen a living soul for hours, I squatted to take a pee in the tall brush. I felt a huge mental shift of impossible proportions. I stood up and effortly lifted my previously heave-ho backpack back on. I stood there by the river for possibly an hour, with no idea what day of the week it was or what time it was. I took a photo with my mind that I&#8217;ll never forget &#8211; who I really am, with all the &#8220;stuff&#8221; I&#8217;ve worked so hard towards stripped from me, surrounded by the wild untamed unknown of my future life. I didn&#8217;t want to go back to the place I&#8217;d been living as much as I love Brighton&#8230; I just wanted to carry on walking, 20 miles a day, from town to town for the rest of my life. Just me and my trusty backpack. And I thank Quiddity for that. I can move on now from my search and spend my life chasing new dreams.<\/p>\n<p>My home is and has always been wherever my butt slept last night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iv&#8217;e spent my whole life moving from city to country looking for &#8220;home&#8221;. Some people spend their whole life searching for fame, or the love of their life or self discovery, and mine has always been home. It&#8217;s silly really, because I must have known inside where it is all along, and it&#8217;s something I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[212],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogalog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3332\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}