I wonder what your hometown experience has been like. What are some of the best things about a hometown? What are some of the most troublesome things about a hometown?
When I talk about the hometown I am talking about more than Nazareth, Uvalde, or a geographical location. Our hometown isn’t something outside of us, it’s within us. It’s not a place, but a way of being. It’s our routines and habits, attitudes, beliefs, opinions, prejudices, assumptions, values. It’s the hardened patterns of how we’ve always done things and what we’ve always thought. The hometown is a lens through which we see the world, one another, and ourselves. The hometown shapes who we are and how we live. And regardless of how often we have moved, we all have a hometown, and usually more than one.
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