Colton Place (Chapter 2)

(Photo Taken By: Ashley Dyce)

There's no place like home right? In the story of "HomePlace" by: Scott Russell Sanders, it talks about a family who house had been demolished 3 times by tornadoes. but they never moved they just kept rebuilding and lived life again. And the writer wonders why they haven't moved, and realizes its more then just a home, its the place were they built there lives, and other things around them. This reminds me of my life growing up in the city of Colton. Many times in the past our house has been broken in to or we have felt threaten by our surrounds but my parents refused to move. Once you have built a life and relationship with the community u live in its hard to just pick up and leave.

Over the years we have established a lot of different things in the city. For one my parents Pastor our church in Colton. Which we developed a church family and people who know us know were the church is and all the events and things that go on during the weeks and years. So it would be hard now after 10 years to just get up and move away, due to the fact my family has a lot of ties and built relationships with the people at our church. Second my parents also opened a business in Colton 2 years ago, which gave us the opportunity to meet new people, and make new relationships with those who we didn't know lived in this community. Which now makes it even harder to just leave, we have our lives here, even though things bad might happen, like earthquakes, floods, mudslides...etc. We still remain to live here, and if anything gets broken or the house gets demolished in anyway, we would just rebuild or find another house in this city.

In the picture above, I took during my aunties baby shower. A lot of times our relatives and church family like to host parties, and get together at my house, because it is pretty big and everyone knows were it is.