• Humid
• Beach
• Warm
• Bejeweled
• Slow cooked
• Fried food
• Inviting
• Introspective
• Sweet (tea)
• Sweet (potato pie)
• Sweet (disposition)
• Spanish moss
• Historic
• Displaced
• Dispersed
• Vibrant
• Lush
• Flood prone
• Optimistic
• Loud laughs
• Musical
• Self-respect
• Self-defense
• Rendered invisible
• Drankin
• Sangin
• Dancin
• Spiritual
• Children come first
• Cunning
• Strategic
• Enduring
• Outmanuever
• Quick-witted
• Rage
• Exploited
• Power
• Trickster
• Familial roles & duties
• High expectations
• Spiritual
• Folklore
• Seeking
• Fractured
• Media conscious
• Nurturing
• Smothering
• Matriarchal/matrilineal
• Personal style
• Community-oriented
• Hot sauce
• “A woman’s place”
• Hustle mentality
• “nice nasty”
• Ancestor veneration
• Jewelry
• Stones & earthenware
• “Do it for the culture”
• Process trauma through beauty
• Body modification
• Personal sense of style
• Sex tourism
• Socialite
• Diaspora
• Slow-paced
• “Ain’t nothing worse than an educated fool.”
• Importance of elders
• Emphasis on education

Home is cultural as well as physical.

Culturally, I consider home a point of reference from which a person navigates the world around them. In this way, home is a mindset, a sense of being, a way of seeing self.

Beyond just a place to keep our possessions, home is also the physical environment that shaped us and informed our view of society in our formative years. Our climate of comfort, the clothes worn there, the foods we eat, our activities of choice. We in turn shape our environment: home is where we learn who we are, who we want to be, what our positions are in this world, and what impact we want to make.