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e have a spot by the beach — thanks to some wonderful friends — where we can relax and enjoy an amazing view any time of the day.</p><figure id="f126"><img src="https://cdn-images-1.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:800/1*5ONQirK308cjbeHPsYIIlg.jpeg"><figcaption></figcaption></figure><figure id="bded"><img src="https://cdn-images-1.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:800/1*avNaJ1_-dcwn1yRT-V79Uw.jpeg"><figcaption>Frankston Beach, Port Philip Bay, Victoria (photos: author)</figcaption></figure><p id="0333">I now know that this place of my birth is not my home. My dreams have been filled with my ‘new’ home. The people and places that I see daily. The extreme seasons. The gentle water that freezes in the winter.</p><p id="8843">This is a new feeling for me. A nice feeling. This beach and this place where I was born is familiar, yet no longer my home. I will always enjoy coming back here, to the familiar sound of the waves, the slow nasal drawl of their English, the upside-down seasons, the burning sun. But my home is now the beautiful archipelago I live in.</p><p id="f0fe"><b>Where my heart is.</b></p><p id="096e"><i>Lisa is a writer and poet, who moved to Finland in September 2017. She loves the beach in Australia and also being out in the archipelago where she now lives. If you want to <a href="https://lis

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Shifting Homes

Travelling back to the land of my birth

Photo: Frankston Beach, Victoria, Australia (author’s photo)

I am on some kind of strange journey. An emotional journey. A restorative journey.

I have always sought respite from the stressors of life by the sea. It has been my ‘go to’ place. The place I now call home is surrounded by water — the Baltic Sea — but not the sea as I grew up to know. There are no rolling waves or tides where I live. But it is beautiful!

Frankston Beach in sunset and midday. (Photos: Author)

Returning to Australia, the country of my birth, in the summer was something I look forward to. This time I knew it would provide some much-needed solace after a year that has been full of work with little downtime.

And I was right! We have a spot by the beach — thanks to some wonderful friends — where we can relax and enjoy an amazing view any time of the day.

Frankston Beach, Port Philip Bay, Victoria (photos: author)

I now know that this place of my birth is not my home. My dreams have been filled with my ‘new’ home. The people and places that I see daily. The extreme seasons. The gentle water that freezes in the winter.

This is a new feeling for me. A nice feeling. This beach and this place where I was born is familiar, yet no longer my home. I will always enjoy coming back here, to the familiar sound of the waves, the slow nasal drawl of their English, the upside-down seasons, the burning sun. But my home is now the beautiful archipelago I live in.

Where my heart is.

Lisa is a writer and poet, who moved to Finland in September 2017. She loves the beach in Australia and also being out in the archipelago where she now lives. If you want to stay in touch you can. And read some other things Lisa has written…