Chris Duffy

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And that is it for this season of How to Be a Better Human.

I would say have a great summer, but it is the middle of winter.

So instead, I will say stay warm and we'll catch you next year.

Thanks for listening.

I'm going to go blow my nose.

What is home?

Lately, I've been thinking about that question a lot.

Because home isn't just a place with familiar spots and corners.

It's where you feel a sense of belonging.

And as the world has gotten bigger and messier and lonelier, I have been feeling like it is more urgent than ever to have people and places that I can depend on.

To really call a place home.

When I brought this up to my friend, the poet and educator Sarah Kay, she said,

So today we are hanging out with Hanif Abdurraqib and learning about why he loves his hometown so much.

Hanif Abdurraqib wears many hats, but I know him first as a poet and a writer, a cultural critic who writes about music in a way that makes you just want to listen to albums all day long.

An essayist whose books about grief and joy and basketball make you ugly cry in public.

Every time I think I'm going to dodge it and then he gets me again, I am tearing up.

Hanif spends a lot of time on the road, but he always returns to the place where he is from, the east side of Columbus, Ohio.

And that is not just a place that Hanif loves.