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Home Is Where the Heart Is
On belonging, resilience, and the places that live inside us. What is home? Merriam-Webster defines home simply: “one’s place of residence.” A domicile. A house. A familiar setting. But an older definition stops me cold: home is “the abiding place of the affections.” That one. That’s the one I want to talk about. Because if…
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Something Is Pulling — Notes on Creative Living, Flow and Finding Your Way Back
The macrame curtain for the outdoor shower Creative living doesn’t always announce itself dramatically. Sometimes it arrives quietly — on an ordinary afternoon, in the form of a macrame curtain for an outdoor shower. This afternoon I finished a piece I had been imagining for a while. Nothing grand. Nothing that will end up in…