Home and be longing: Our attachment to place can be a primal feeling

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Home and be longing: Our attachment to place can be a primal feeling

Lucy O'Hagan photo

Lucy O'Hagan

Lake Hāwea
The ridge above Kidds bush looking back down Lake Hāwea, part of Lucy’s “home”

Belonging involves longing. Longing for home, for land, for connection, says Lucy O’Hagan

There is a sense of the land in me, as much as me in the land A few years before COVID, when I was still gallivanting around the world as if the