Begin with a Key

Begin with a Key

He had been given a key. A shiny blue key. Blue to match his mood. Shiny to match his dreams of home and his barely contained excitement that they might come true. There were many more steps to be taken to find the door that would open into his own home. To get the bed and the table. To fill his refrigerator with food. But holding the key firmly in his gnarled old hands, he took the next step. That tiny blue key was his inspiration. That tiny blue key would become his motivation like the prayer bead his mother kept next to her heart.

“Home is a notion that only nations of the homeless 

fully appreciate and only the uprooted comprehend.”

~ Wallace Stegner, Angle of Repost