"My Home"

There is a quote from Memory of Water that specifically caught my eye as I was reading it: "Bright as a reflection in a clear mirror, I saw myself, walking and learning the scent and twists of the unfamiliar streets between the buildings of a strange city like one learns a language. And beyond that, a landscape of my own, for me to discover and make my home." I particularly like how the author, Emmi Itäranta, refers to the act of becoming familiar with a new city being much like that of learning a whole new language. Also, the term 'landscape' is used here to describe a place to be made home, for someone to call their own. A place where one and the earth could coexist.

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