What came to mind immediately was Jimmy Buffett’s classic “Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes”. Love that song and hope to live it someday. However, while I’m still mostly “Mom” the word that is most important to me is “home” and my home is far from perfect. However, I have a lot of pride in what it is, because I think what it has makes up for everything it lacks, at least to the people who belong to it.

The attitude within is more important than the circumstances without.

Welcome Home
By Michelle Garren-Flye

We may be small, we may be broken,
the kitchen’s not clean, there’s dust 
everywhere and the laundry was forgotten—
but what we do have here is a must.

You feel it as soon as you walk in:
a warmth lacking in tidier spaces,
a friendly smell of meals that have been
eaten in peace in this humblest of places.

Maybe it’s love, maybe it’s life lived well—
or just reliably there although you may roam?
It’s much more than just a place you can dwell,
and whatever it is, it makes this a home.