NOTHING BEATS falling asleep on a plane and waking up here. I secretly wish every night when I drift off to sleep that I wake up in the place I call home. I reside in North Carolina, but my life is by the river bend in this city. That’s where I call home. Where history and the future play out their dialog in every detail. Conversations I had there decades ago are as vivid in my present as they were then. And there is one long overdue conversation that started there in 1983 with a Southern drawl that needs to be continued as soon as I can muster some gumption. Fortitude. That’s my city’s lesson in all manner of things. #behousedesign#findinghome