Portable home.
written by Julie R. Neidlinger 3 comments link this postHome can be found in the strangest ways.
Today was a bummer, but I'm not going to delve into it. It'll pass.
Anyway, as I was sitting here writing it all out in my journal, I could feel myself relaxing, as if I were home. I've spent enough time writing in journals at home or other non-stressful places that, it seems, I associate the act of writing in a journal with the feeling I get there.
Essentially, by just writing in my journal, I have a portable home.
As I wrote in my journal: "...the familiarity of pen on paper is just enough to evoke a "you're home, you're safe" feeling.
Oddly, I get that same feeling in...(prepare yourself, for it's terrible)...Target. I've gone to the Target store in Grand Forks with my parents so much that I have an association with it. My mom calls it her "favorite store" and there are other associations and memories with trips to Grand Forks that get capped off grocery shopping in Target that when I found myself walking through Target today I felt that similar feeling.
I'm more proud of my journal association than my Big Box Store association, but there you have it. Feelings of home can be portable, as long as the roots were made deep long before you called them up for use.
I think writing is going to be very, very useful for me. Target, less so, since I don't have any money and I'm afraid the security would be weirded out if I just wandered around the store every day. Plus, there's so much red there, and all the little targets. It upsets me after a while.
Labels: family, humor, my life, summer 2008, writing
Copyright (c) Julie R. Neidlinger 6/09/2008 05:51:00 PM
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3 Comments:
I love Target. I want to go there right now.
By 
jvjannotti, at
9/6/08 18:49
I'll go there for you.
And have something from Starbucks.
All in your honor.
Enjoy.
By 
Julie R. Neidlinger, at
10/6/08 10:04
I too am a fellow Target lover. I have been in many Targets over this great state of ND, and I must say that I am sadly disappointed with the Minot Target, I have actually started to go to the, dare I say it...Super Wal Mart....so sorry
By Shannon, at
10/6/08 10:05
