Homecoming....

Dorothy said it best - there is no place like home. I am home. This is the place of my birth; the place where I grew up; the place where my foundation was formed - where my parents and lines of generations before them are buried; where three of my seven siblings still live. This is the home of my heart, the home of my youth. I am home.

The welcome embrace of my sisters makes it all worthwhile. I feel the love, I feel the bond - this is the place where, no matter what happens, I will always belong.

So, the traffic is horrible, the drivers are all over the place, the streets are small, u-turns are made in the middle of traffic and the vehicles are inches away from each other, there are so many people everywhere - and still I smile. These do not faze me. I am home.