Meaning of "HOME" by Emily Haskell

"HOME" means a safe haven where you can go to feel comfortable and the pets/people who make it so. Home is not necessarily where you grew up nor where you live now. It could be anywhere you have felt the most welcome. A home is what we make for ourselves with mortar of memories and bricks of people who've lived them with us. I have never felt alienated from my home, just the urge to leave it every once and a while as I am now ready to start my own "home." When I'm away I miss my mother cooking in the kitchen, my father relaxing to music in the living room, my brother locked in his room while computer blips burst like small firecrackers from under his door, my dog Sable sleeping under the crabapple tree and our horses grazing in the open pastures. I miss the smell of the house, my bed that knows the curve of my body, climbing the steps upstairs, my hide-and-seek haunts, the invisible footsteps I've left all through the house and the mud tracked inside on rainy days.