Wow

Cartoonist and internet superstar Kate Beaton on the subject of home, and loss.

It's tremendously affecting. I lived in a very small town from the age of three til eight, then a smallish city from nine to ten, which is when I moved to Houston, which is also when my concept of what towns and cities and communities are like began to utterly dissolve. I am still kind of waiting for those concepts to recalcify.

Sometimes I think my ideas of how home should feel is better than how home actually feels: it's an idealism, an idea that can only be seen in rose-tinted glasses. But Kate's cartoon puts those ideas to shame, and I realize I'm very wrong.

I will make sure my son has a strong sense of home. I know my wife certainly does – perhaps these things just spread easier here, in Austin, though it is growing and changing with every passing day.

EDIT: It seems Kate had to take the comic down due to pressure from home.