Our hearts and minds are in limbo. Where is home? At the moment, we have two.

One is:

• Red dirt
• Hot wind
• Pandanas and stringybarks
• Wide blue skies
• Geographical isolation
• Quiet
• Camp dogs
• Community
• Grinning white teeth and dark laughing eyes
• A different language and culture
• Mango, pawpaw and banana trees
• Smoke from back-burning
• Crocodile inhabited beaches
• Cockatoos and kookaburras
• Endless stars
• Mosquitos
• Four wheel drives
• Cake baking
• Rain

The other is:

• Concrete footpaths
• Floorboards
• Rushing
• Cheap, delicious takeaway food
• Traffic lights
• Graffiti on brick walls
• Conversations paused as planes fly over
• Light, everywhere, even at night
• Lifelong friends
• Family
• Four distinct seasons
• Stress
• Career opportunities
• Fences
• Hours spent commuting
• Well-equipped parks and handkerchief sized gardens
• Outings, appointments and coffee dates
• A mortgage
• So many memories

I don't know what we will choose or where we will end up, but as long as we are together we will be at home.

Us. We. Our. Family. Home.