A few weeks ago at a workshop I learned about what a parish map is , and during Julia Shipley's wonderful class I spent a lot of time musing not only on past addresses, but especially on the place I call home today. I realize now, that over this past year of shedding, a huge journey into this idea of home has emerged for me. It's been a year of digging into the ground right beneath my feet, inviting people in, and not looking too far past my own front door for a place to create and connect. Home is becoming the space that now is nourishing my creative life, a new pivot point of longitude and latitude both for the interior and exterior of my world. Maybe it began with finally naming this house after living here for almost 6 years, back in the spring. Like so many of the other personalized and claimed houses here on Plum Island, ours is now aptly called " gone wishing", part of what began the deep plunge into the heart of this place I call home. There is s