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// SABBATICAL // I’ll be the first to admit that sometimes I get “Instagram-itis” craving time and space away from the busyness of the online world. This happened in particular after returning from New Mexico. I’ve also realized that right now I’m just craving a little privacy to truly integrate some significant life changes and I rather give myself that space vs. trying to push ahead. So, instead of the inconsistent posts and terrible stops and starts (which is what I have been consistent at lately), I’m just going to take a little sabbatical from posting content for HCH to truly process and integrate where I’m going next. I will still be online here and there, so if you’d like to keep in touch with me feel free to DM me, follow my personal account @noemiccastro or
just email me at noemi@heartcenteredhome.com — 🍯 🐝 🌳 Looking forward to the next iteration and all the shifts and insights along the way!
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📷 // @inherimagephoto

| HOMESICK | adjective. / experiencing a longing for one's home during a period of absence from it. /

What does it mean to miss home? What is home? Perhaps a place, and/ or a person or group of people... Perhaps it is simply a feeling of intimacy and belonging... We made it back to Las Vegas after a whirlwind drive through California, Nevada, Arizona, Utah, and the northern back country roads of New Mexico. Through Navajo lands and then Jicarilla Apache lands. I am the fourth generation away from my full-blood Chiricahua Apache ancestors, but I was asked (half jokingly) in Apache lands if it felt like coming home... the truth was I was my missing California home. Besides the laughter and building collection of inside jokes, the truth was I was missing more then just my home state.
Home has been an changing and evolving concept for me as of late. From concrete to abstract. After 6 days on the road and an 11 hour journey from Santa Fe to Las Vegas, the sense of belonging nowhere and everywhere at the same time starts to percolate. We return to California today, I am sure with new found appreciation. A piece of home. 🌿

Sometimes it just takes a change in perspective.
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I was thinking as we drove along the miles, the dust storms, the scattered trailers and air streams, how often I would fly when I traveled and just drop in to a new place. I would arrive, and feel the air and land was different without fully grasping its relationship to where I left. Perhaps it’s a grand concept, but the gift of driving across four different states and one indigenous reservation, is seeing first hand how disparate and diverse places fit together like pieces of a geographical, historical and cultural puzzle... diverse but unified. One continuous planet. One human family. Different points of view, woven like a basket or tapestry. .
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The gift of travel is the shift in perspective it provides, if not only in our own lives... with it comes release, with it comes expansion, with it comes ah-ha moments however small. And hopefully, with it comes a whole lot of laughter and silliness along the way.

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