“There’s my heart beating. There’s warmth. There’s red. There’s orange. There’s that fiery reminder that all things in nature reset.” Nick Triolo shares words and images from Todos Santos, Mexico.

So what comes of us working stiffs? The ones tethered to desks and paychecks and accountability? When our identities become like iron around us, unshakable and unshedable, how do we break free?

“Home can be four walls and a foundation, but it can also be so much more.” This year, traveling writer and sketch artist Candace Rose Rardon finds a place — and a community — in San Francisco.

“My understanding of home has changed in the sense that, for a long time I felt that I needed to do what my parents had done. I was so in admiration of what they had built, but eventually I realized . . . that my creation, my home, would be made via my writing.” In her profile series on wanderers, Tessa Love at Wander Home asks Alice Driver about home — and her ties to Arkansas and Mexico.