Six Word Memoir: Home

One home behind, the other ahead.

For me this six word memoir expresses the beauty and bitter sweetness of the transitional idea of home. I grew up in St. Louis, but my family moved to the Minneapolis area after I graduated from high school, and right before I moved to Provo for school. Going "home" for Christmas is always a little strange because I don't have emotional connections to Minneapolis, other than the fact that my parents live there. Provo is just as much home for me, if not more so than my parents house, which is hard for me to completely come to terms with. My process of creation for this piece was interesting, because I wasn't thinking of these concepts when I took the picture. I just was taken with how striking the sunset looked over the mountains, and snapped a picture. However, looking back at it afterwards and recalling how I felt at that time while coming back to Utah after Christmas break brought these  words to my mind in conjunction with the photograph. I think that this would be a great activity to do with students in a play writing unit. Perhaps each student could come prepared with a 6 word memoir, and then they would switch with another student and write a scene fully fleshing out the story portrayed in the memoir.