Photo credit: Keith "Giligan" Geier Before we have words for it, we learn the comfort of returning. A small child wanders a few steps from a parent but looks back for a familiar face. A traveler crosses miles knowing there is a place waiting at the end of the journey. We leave, explore, and discover, but there is something reassuring about knowing there is a way back. Perhaps that is why the places and people we return to matter so much. They remind us that we are known. The