Home

Don't know it's beginning; but it was a house before becoming a HOME. Concrete block house with Four large rooms. Don't know how that house departed; but at its heyday, there were two additional wood rooms added. That HOME (family) consisted of a mom and dad, a maternal grandmother, 8 girls, 4 boys, and a dog named Jack who was very much a part of that loud and lovely big HOME. First to depart that close snit HOME was the dog who was shot and killed sometime just prior to the father's demise which occurred in 1963. By '74, all family members had moved away from that house. That house was last seen by me sometime during the mid-'70s. Nevertheless, the HOME, though now scattered across the country, remains a HOME. There now remain 4 women and 3 men of that generation. Sometimes one generation will leave no descendants, but it is rare that a HOME will fully die. It is much more common for a house to disappear by fires, storms, etc. More and more, I am seeing houses that have been completely abandoned and are being allowed for nature to take them back. These are sites that hurt my eyes and break my heart. Revisiting my house and HOME site after more than 30 years, it broke my heart that my house of birth was nevermore. But I ask myself, "What would it have been like to see it slowly fall and fade away"? 022623PSCtest, Writing Challenge -H Words -. Constance La France. Word Chosen: Home