[Love: My City & Me ] Bama, Bama, Bama by Christine Richter Alabama has always been my home. When I started to read all the city stories being shared by readers and friends of Sarah, I realized that I really don’t know anything else. To me, all hometowns would feel just like the various small towns I’ve always come home to in Bama- safe, warm, exciting, surprising, familiar, comforting, hopeful, the place that you just know in your heart- when you are there- you are home. There’s this stigma about being from a lot of places in the south like Mobile (pictured above, by far the largest city I’ve lived in) - like because our towns are a bit smaller and our accents are more southern - that we have this inward way of viewing life and the world….that we lack a perspective common with the cities of bright lights and lots of traffic. And maybe this is the case. Maybe because I’ve never lived anywhere else I’m missing some part of some massive picture. And maybe someday I’ll pack up my bags and move somewhere new and random - full of adventure, without any familiarity. Step outside that infamous comfort zone. But I have to tell you - If I never know any other home…. If this is all there is for my journey….if my perspective never gets wider and my view always stays this ‘simple’ - then I’m perfectly fine with that, too. That old southern song is true - happiness isn’t getting what you want, it’s wanting what you got. And home is where your happy heart is… Share your city story with me. :)

[Love: My City & Me ] Bama, Bama, Bama by Christine Richter

Alabama has always been my home. When I started to read all the city stories being shared by readers and friends of Sarah, I realized that I really don’t know anything else.

To me, all hometowns would feel just like the various small towns I’ve always come home to in Bama- safe, warm, exciting, surprising, familiar, comforting, hopeful, the place that you just know in your heart- when you are there- you are home.

There’s this stigma about being from a lot of places in the south like Mobile (pictured above, by far the largest city I’ve lived in) - like because our towns are a bit smaller and our accents are more southern - that we have this inward way of viewing life and the world….that we lack a perspective common with the cities of bright lights and lots of traffic.

And maybe this is the case. Maybe because I’ve never lived anywhere else I’m missing some part of some massive picture. And maybe someday I’ll pack up my bags and move somewhere new and random - full of adventure, without any familiarity. Step outside that infamous comfort zone.

But I have to tell you - If I never know any other home…. If this is all there is for my journey….if my perspective never gets wider and my view always stays this ‘simple’ - then I’m perfectly fine with that, too.

That old southern song is true - happiness isn’t getting what you want, it’s wanting what you got. And home is where your happy heart is…

Share your city story with me. :)