On the weekend, when I was struggling with panic over my broken-down car, one of the greatest fears that kept rising up was losing my home. I rent a lovely apartment in a quiet, century neighbourhood. I love living alone. I love this place where I find myself. I love the beautiful and useful objects [...]
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temporary home
Posted in finances, home, interior design, kitchens, mindfulness, minimalism, spirituality
Also tagged apartment, fear, impermanence, non-grasping, panic, pantry, personal development, personal growth, temporary
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return
There’s a choral work that I love called Missa Gaia / Earth Mass. One of the movements in this mass is Return to Gaia, a musical representation of how an astronaut must feel when she gazes at the earth from space. That sense of longing – of love – for a place that looks so [...]
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Also tagged astronaut, earth, Earth Mass, mass, Missa Gaia, Paul Halley, Paul Winter, Return to Gaia
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blessing
I have a friend whose home is warm and welcoming. It just plain feels good to be there. I tell her all the time how much I love her space, and she talks about continually “working on” the energy of her home. This intrigues me, because I wonder what someone could do to make their [...]
welcome
I love the word “welcome.” Well come. Home is a place where I feel welcome. When you stand outside my thatched hut, Could you guess how spacious it is inside? There is a galaxy of worlds in here. And space for as much love as I can find. Ishikawa Jozan (17th century), from a Zen [...]
family
This is a photo of a drawing I made in January, when my family was on vacation. My niece traced each person’s hand, and I coloured in the overlapped tracings. This drawing makes me happy, because these are some of the people I love most in the world. Home is often the place where our [...]
soul
Some people talk about their homes having “soul.” That makes me curious. Is “soul” something that is either there or not there? Is it transient? Does it come and go? Or is soul the eternal constant, the underlying structure – the heartbeat? This is just my personal belief: I think that soul is the quality [...]
core
The more I riff on the idea of home, the more shades and layers of meaning I find. After thinking about heart, the word “core” came to mind. (And I can’t prove it, but I bet core is also linguistically related to coeur (heart) and focus.) My head is filled with all kinds cores: Core [...]
heart
Strange as it may sound, the words heart, hearth and focus all have the same root. The heart of my home is not only the hearth. The heart is also the caring and healing energy that uplifts me whenever I walk through my doors. The heart is also the deep mystery at the centre of [...]
vision of home
For most of my life I lived in other people’s houses. They were my homes all right, but they didn’t belong to me. I didn’t have control over the way things looked – except in my bedrooms, which were increasingly crammed with a lifetime’s worth of living. I was a magazine junkie for many years, [...]
home
Home is a place where: We live We rest We eat We play We make love ~ What does home mean to you? ~ The theme for April 2012 is home. Copyright and disclosures.
