{"id":11340,"date":"2025-06-18T04:41:51","date_gmt":"2025-06-18T04:41:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/farefwd.com\/?p=11340"},"modified":"2025-09-23T19:15:22","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T19:15:22","slug":"opening-remarks-28","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/farefwd.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/18\/opening-remarks-28\/","title":{"rendered":"Opening Remarks"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"11340\" class=\"elementor elementor-11340\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-41db2501 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"41db2501\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element 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class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>We often think of home as something simple, enshrining the concept in cliches and thinking we understand it.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-inner-column elementor-element elementor-element-7c78635b\" data-id=\"7c78635b\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-4fa9d883 elementor-drop-cap-yes elementor-drop-cap-view-default elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"4fa9d883\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-settings=\"{&quot;drop_cap&quot;:&quot;yes&quot;}\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"output\" class=\"page-generator__output js-generator-output\"><p>Dear Reader,<\/p><p>In his poem \u201cThe Death of the Hired Man,\u201d Robert Frost writes a dialog in which his characters debate the meaning of the word \u201chome.\u201d Warren calls it \u201cthe place where, when you have to go there, \/ They have to take you in.\u201d His wife Mary counters, \u201cI should have called it \/ Something you somehow haven\u2019t to deserve.\u201d In both definitions, there is a sense of belonging, of being a part of something intrinsically; without question, by Warren\u2019s definition, and without dessert, by Mary\u2019s. We often think of home as something simple, enshrining the concept in cliches and thinking we understand it. But the kind of belonging that Frost describes can be very hard to find in our current moment\u2014moves, losses, and family conflicts often leave us homeless, despite never lacking a place to lay our heads.<\/p><p>In this issue of <i>Fare Forward<\/i>, we set out to interrogate the cracks and fissures in our mythology of home, to look at the divisions in both our ideas and our hearts that interfere with our ability to truly belong. In their stories of living without roots, of finding more than one place to call home, and of returning to a home we thought we\u2019d left behind for good, our writers point to the crucial need to love and invest ourselves in the places where we find ourselves, if we are ever to find a place we can call, even just for the time being, home. 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