This is a picture of my nephew, the summer he was one. Moments before, I’d photographed him trying to bite into a raw green bean that had been picked from my father’s garden. We’d told my nephew that he couldn’t eat them, but he kept sneaking beans out of the basket, and trying to bite [...]
Category Archives: home
comfort
I burned my supper yesterday. Here’s the whole story. Home is a place where I seek comfort. The flip side of comfort (as evidenced by the burnt pot, above) is that sometimes we take it too far. I love food, and I love to cook. I make all my meals from scratch, and I love [...]
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 [...]
nest
When we talk about animals, we sometimes use the words “nest” and “home” interchangeably. But if you think about it, nests are really only temporary places for raising young. Birds build nests to lay eggs in… and so do wasps. Sometimes people call their homes or their beds “nests,” but what they really mean is [...]
regeneration
There are two purple maples outside my front room window. I’m looking at one of them right now. Over the past few weeks they’ve sprouted flowers, keys, and now the tiniest of little leaves. They’re beautiful in the sunshine, because the flowers are bright yellow-green, while the leaves are deep burgundy. I love the miracle [...]
respite
As I start to write this post, one of my cats is trying to use my mouse arm for a pillow. He’s looking for a little shut-eye, and he knows my arm is comfy and warm. To be honest, I need a bit of shut-eye, too. I have a full-time job, and I typically try [...]
rest
This is a photo of my two cats, Guy and Tear, sleeping on my bed when they were about 10 weeks old. Most beings need at least a little sleep. Home is where we rest our bodies. It’s important to be heroic, ambitious, productive, efficient, creative, and progressive, but these qualities don’t necessarily nurture the [...]
Also posted in animals, bedrooms, interior design, rest, sleep
Tagged kittens, rest, sleeping, Thomas Moore
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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 [...]
space
This is a picture of my bedroom. It’s exactly the way I want it – practically empty (except for a bed and a light), and spacious. Most homes have some kind of boundary – some kind of walls and roof that enclose an empty space. I’ve noticed that some people seem to crave as much [...]
Also posted in animals, bedrooms, interior design, walls, windows
Tagged garden snail, land snail, room, space, window
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sacred
Many people talk about their home being a “sacred space.” What they usually mean is not that their home is a place of religious worship and ritual (although home can certainly be understood that way), but that their home is a place where some activities or people or things aren’t welcome. They’ve set apart the [...]
