I recently visited my birthplace.
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I recently visited my birthplace. We moved away when I was 5 and I hadn’t been back in decades. My parents are immigrants so we have no familial connection to that place. My parents also sold the house I grew up in so sometimes I don’t feel like I’m from anywhere. I brought home a tiny sample of birthplace #clay to make art with so that I could try to process and heal this disconnect.
I’m curious if you have a connection to your birthplace and if you could explain what that’s like.
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I recently visited my birthplace. We moved away when I was 5 and I hadn’t been back in decades. My parents are immigrants so we have no familial connection to that place. My parents also sold the house I grew up in so sometimes I don’t feel like I’m from anywhere. I brought home a tiny sample of birthplace #clay to make art with so that I could try to process and heal this disconnect.
I’m curious if you have a connection to your birthplace and if you could explain what that’s like.
Left at 7 and it feels like other neighborhoods I've liked and lived in.
But other than the memories I don't know anyone there. The corner store is still there after some 60 years.
What surprised me when I came back in my teens was how small the house was.
A prefab wooden house with a porch and a small patio to park one car felt gigantic to me as a kid.
