Homesick.

For me, it's a very particular type of harsh rocky, woody, lake-y landscape.

I can breathe easier when I'm there.

Well, not really, cuz of my allergies. But I can breathe more deeply in my soul.

A certain ease, I think. Being able to let my guard all the way down. That's usually people plus time/ place, then -- as in, there are groups of people (especially groups) that if I got them all together tomorrow, it wouldn't have that same ease as what I'm thinking about and missing.

i accidentally left the bedroom window open on a chilly night.
the next day i was home, sick...

Definitely people. I haven't been homesick much, but lately, when I messed things up with one of my very few friends here, I felt lonely. I realized that most people that are closest to me are at home in Bratislava. It is a bit painful to be away from my parents who are aging, and especially now that my sister is coming back to hometown, going through a divorce and all... I feel like I ought to be there. And I miss Toci, man unparalelled in this universe. A true sweetheart, and a riot. And I miss Bratislava streets and squares, just that certain jenesaisquoi that hangs in the air, which when you breathe in, you know that this place belongs to you. and you to it. sigh. i suppose i am homesick.

It's been ages since I was homesick! I guess I get shades of it when I think about the SW - especially NM. I moved back here because I was homesick for new england......

When I miss it, it's the places, not the people.

Chicago archtecture.

Shopping on Michigan Avenue. All of the things to do and places to go in a big, bustling, happening city on a warm summer night.

Free concerts in Grant Park or the South Shore Country Club, smoking weed and hanging out with the bongo players on the lakefront in Hyde Park.

The Gold Coast Art Fair.

I'll stop now.

You're a man after my sense of humor. Come see me some time in H.I. :wink:

I really don't know, if you can call it homesick, but I miss Chicago, Albuquerque, New Mexico, France, England ...

Seriously, I've never been homesick as far as I remember - only sick of not going to other places, 'wanderlust' or 'distant sick' ("Fernweh" as it's called in German).

When I get homesick, I imagine myself driving down the road to my house. It's always summertime. The windows are down, and I'm just two minutes away. I can't see it yet, but I know it's there just around the corner- my family, my dog, the trees.

I'm away from home so often; sometimes all I need to assuage the ache is to remind myself that home is there, and I'll be back at some point soon.

When I leave home to go to another country I get homesick for the fresh air and the crystal clear drinking water, and the smiles on my family and friends faces and my own bed and.....well thats about it really

When we lived in NY and RI, I used to get homesick for Boston. Now that we live here, honestly, that empty ache has gone away. I do miss friends on occasion, but there's just nothing like the feeling of being centered.

When I lived on Long Island, I would often walk the boardwalk in Long Beach. The sound of the ocean was very relaxing to me. There are times here in Florida that I want to be back on the boardwalk.

I also miss the mountains in upstate New York.

I get homesick for my sisters and I get homesick for the Indian River.

Thanks again for all of the wonderful pictures of Chicago, Walter. You can imagine how much I ached looking at them. But it was good.

I miss my family and the huge gatherings we had on the holidays. Christmas wil never again be like it was in 1983 in my mothers' apartment. There must have been at least thirty of us. I've been trying to recreate the feeling but the number of family members have decreased severely and it seems like no one is having any children.
Seems like everybody's kid is gay!!!