Wander with me
Hello there, my name is Nancy and I am happy that you are here.
Since I was a child, I knew that there was much more to what was going on around me than what I could see. Feeling as if I was standing still while life whizzed around me was prevalent but so was the feeling of inner calm, a feeling way too old for a little girl. I didn't understand what that all was all about exactly and as I grew into adulthood, the chasm between what I could see and what I knew I felt, made me struggle.
Now, allow me to share a little about myself...
I am first-generation American. My parents both are from Cuba. My mother and my abuela raised me in Park Slope, Brooklyn, a neighborhood that was not one of the more expensive places to live in NYC when I was growing up. As a child, I felt much more Cuban than I was American and have been teased all my life for being a living contradiction in how I live up to those two sides of myself.
Full disclosure, I kind of always liked that about myself.
I currently teach and have been doing so for almost twenty years. My daughters are now adults and starting their own lives. I have been loved and have loved, befriended many, succeeded and failed, learned new skills, met some goals, and traveled a little. I have never visited Cuba, but would love to, and have lived my entire 51 years in New York City, which I love, especially for its four seasons. But now, in those still frequent moments of inner calm (I have willingly lingered in them in the last several months), I know it's time for me to find my way back to myself by building a new "home".
I have spent most of my time in urban apartments but more recently in suburban houses. Why is this of any importance you might ask? In my search for understanding myself and others better, it occurs to me that my answer to the question Where do you live? might have more than one answer.
Where we live is potentially so much more than just a set of wooden beams, concrete, and glass apertures. The where, whom, why, or what we consider home at this very moment is how it all begins. This is what I am going to do with the "me" time I mentioned.
I invite you to join me on my own life's journey, and perhaps, as I learn what helps me build this home of mine, you might discover things for yourself that you could use along the way too.
Where do you live?
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