|
721bc36
|
"She said, "Daddy thinks that all the world's magic is almost evolved out." I thought of Roebuck Lake, its swamps and sloughs and loblollies and breaks of cypress and cane, its sunken treetops and stobs and bream beds and sleepy gar rolling over and over and over, its baptizing pools and bridges and mussels and mosquitoes and turkey vultures and, now in the drought, the gray flaking mud-flats and logs crowded with turtles and sometimes a fat snake yawning its tame old cottony mouth like a well-fed dog in a pen. I said, "Is that what the freak show is?" She said, "Dirty miracles."
|
|
magic
faith
love
isolation
home
|
Lewis Nordan |
|
6127008
|
I create a home that is a safe and nurturing place for me, where I am free to gather myself.
|
|
freedom
home-sweet-home
personal-safety
safe-and-secure
soul-journey
healing-journey
home
safety
|
Maureen Brady |
|
044e578
|
The shield wall reeks of shit, and all a man wants is to be home, to be anywhere but on this field that prepares for battle, but none of us will turn and run or else we will be despised for ever. We pretend we want to be there, and when the wall at last advances, step by step, and the heart is thumping fast as a bird's wing beating, the world seems unreal.
|
|
man
world
heart
despised
ever
prepares
reeks
shield
wing
turn
unreal
run
bird
field
pretend
shit
home
wall
|
Bernard Cornwell |
|
c3ec1c1
|
If the environmental crisis is ultimately a crisis of character, as Wendell Berry told us way back in the 1970's, then sooner or later it will have to be addressed at that level- at home, as it were. In our yards and kitchens and minds.
|
|
environment
home
kitchen
food
|
Michael Pollan |
|
fb8b276
|
As I walk behind her down the halls, it happens. I shrink inch by inch until I am no longer an adult, but a baby toddling along in a comically oversized business suit. I have been pretending to be a grown-up this whole time. My briefcase is full of milk: I have been found out. 'This, then, is home. What is home? Is it a sort of lap of location, that exists only if certain conditions are in place? Is it the intersection of rigidity and comfort--a junction of familiartiy that you curl into? Is it a feeling? I don't know, but I'm being hugged hard against it, and I can't tell when I'll be let go.
|
|
family
home
parents
parents-and-children
|
Patricia Lockwood |
|
21b544c
|
And the farther I walked away, the more upset I got, at the loss of one of the few stable and unchanging docking-points in the world that I had taken for granted: familiar faces, glad greetings: hey manito! For I had thought that this last touchstone of the past, at least, would be where I'd left it.
|
|
grief
loss
home
nostalgia
|
Donna Tartt |
|
5a8ba20
|
And we're finally home.
|
|
love
finally
home
|
Stephanie Perkins |
|
eb97adf
|
She always said, 'When I'm home, I've got to get things done, even if there are visitors. Elizabeth knows how to relax in her own house.' And then she would shake her head, as if Elizabeth had remarkable powers.
|
|
cleaning
housework
relaxation
home
|
Jane Smiley |
|
4469757
|
The afternoon had passed to a ghostly gray. She was struck by the immensity of things, so much water and sky and forest, and after a time it occurred to her that she'd lived a life almost entirely indoors. Her memories were indoor memories, fixed by ceilings and plastered white walls. Her whole life had been locked to geometries: suburban rectangles, city squares. First the house she'd grown up in, then dorms and apartments. The open air had been nothing but a medium of transit, a place for rooms to exist.
|
|
nature
life
indoors
lake
growing-up
rooms
sky
house
home
thought
|
Tim O'Brien |
|
140003f
|
For what is the environmental crisis, if not a crisis of the way we live? The Big Problem is nothing more or less than the sum total of countless little everyday choices, most of them made by us... If the environmental crisis is ultimately a crisis of character, as Wendell Berry told us way back in the 1970's, then sooner or later it will have to be addressed at that level- at home, as it were. In our yards and kitchens and minds.
|
|
environmentalism
environment
cooking
home
kitchen
|
Michael Pollan |