1) Home: what constancy and the known permit is somnolence and relaxation. We speak of “sleepy little towns”, even though most of the people in most of the small towns I know get up very early. But they also go to bed early and I think in most cases sleep well.
Most outsiders call them sleepy because the streets clear out in many places by 8pm and no one is on the road by 10.
They also feel restful, though, stress free, even if if course many ARE suffering at least financially in this global attack on that way of life.
There is something to be said for knowing the Smiths and the Jonea and the other Smiths on Sycamore lane. Your filters assessing Friend or Foe can be turned way down. You never get lost on streets you grew up on. Every corner over time has a memory.
But there is little change and with little change comes little growth. Perhaps one of the key skills in life is developing the ability to tolerate, integrate and PROSPER, emotionally, from change.
And seeking it out, as I have said, is the Buddhist method, or was. The Hindus likewise have four stages of life: child, adult, forrest dweller with your wife, and I think only for men the life of the Sannyasin, or wandering ascetic, who gives up his name, his place and his family, once he has ensured their continuity.
2) Love is very close to an emergent emotional property of trust. Love for a person comes from emotional openness to them. Love for community comes from a trust that you belong. Love fir himanity comes from the faith that if you coukd kniw each individual person you coukd connect and bond with them in at least a murual recognition of the himan condition.
I am not fully sure I belirve this or that it is useful, but engage it fir what it is worth to you, and profit from it if you can.