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What is your home?

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This is a great talk about "never-give-up" kinda things when pursuing your dream by Elizabeth Gilbert, author of a The New York Times Best Seller book " Eat, Pray, Love ". But, to me it's about herself defining home. What is her home? What is your home? Source:  https://www.ted.com/talks/elizabeth_gilbert_success_failure_and_the_drive_to_keep_creating Home is where your heart is, people say. And yes it is. Gilbert's home is writing. That's where her heart is: "And you have to understand that for me, going home did not mean returning to my family's farm. For me, going home meant returning to the work of writing because writing was my home, because I loved writing more than I hated failing at writing, which is to say that I loved writing more than I loved my own ego, which is ultimately to say that I loved writing more than I loved myself. And that's how I pushed through it." That is where you go back to whenever you feel bad or i...