Home Is? What does it mean, to be at home? Explorations, poems, plus. Quotes about home, father and daughter stories, summer poems, happiness poems, and more. My father never felt at home.
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ON BEING
AT HOME -
IMPRESSIONS


Home? Anywhere, as
long as it's with my
family
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Anywhere, except with
my parents.


On the hockey rink
with my team.


In my bedroom when
it's raining, listening to
the rain on the roof.

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ON BEING AT HOME:
THOUGHTS


MY FATHER, MY SELF

MY CHOSEN HOME

HOME WORLD

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POEMS along with
THOUGHTS

IN MY OWN,
MY CHOSEN HOME


SUMMER'S PASSING

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POEMS

IN MY OWN,
MY CHOSEN HOME

SUMMER'S PASSING

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INTERACTIVE FLASH
MUSIC VIDEO!!


SUMMER'S PASSING

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HOME IS ...
many voices

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CONTENTS - ALL

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SPOKEN WORD,
AND SONGS

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HOME -
first version - 2006

 

 

 

ON BEING AT HOME – A REFLECTION

At some point, if we’re lucky, we know we're at home.        MORE

chosen home on a high plateau - my home

 

At some point, if we’re lucky, we know we're at home. We choose to stay where we were born – that's where we know we want to be. Or we move and settle elsewhere, sometimes in the same area, sometimes in a far-off part of the world – and find that's right for us.  Sometimes we do the choosing. Sometimes we know when we've come to the right spot – it's as if our home space has been waiting for us. If we're very lucky, we feel at home in many places, any place we happen to find ourselves.

            Home may be ever-changing.

            And what feels right at one time may not at another.

            Some people never find what feels like home.

But what does it mean: home, a chosen home, being at home, not being at home?

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I've been wondering about that for years.
            But then my father died, and that brought up so much more. Like: what did home mean to him, someone who left one continent to come to another, someone who never seemed to have a full feeling of being at home except in his own home - and even there, much often did not feel homey.

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Elsa
May 1, 2004

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in my own, my chosen home

Home Is? What does it mean, to be at home?
Explorations, poems, plus.
Quotes about home, father and daughter stories,
summer poems, happiness poems, and more.
My father never felt at home.

in my own, my chosen home

 


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What is home? Home is ...

This whole exploration of home started with one word piece -
in my own, my chosen home
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It came to me as my own chosen home was starting to come together.
Click here for it.

This site is a home for me, a home I've never had -
a home for my creative works,
a home I've built, piece by piece.
Click here for the creativity blog,
where I've recorded some of the many steps it's taken,
to build the site
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in my own, my chosen hoe

 

All around are the places we live in. But what does it mean, to be at home?
My father never felt at home.
In My Own, My Chosen Home.
Explorations, reflections and word pieces on home.

 

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home is ... home place, chosen home, home space, forever at home,
home is where the heart is, homeward bound, chosen home, my chosen home,
no matter how humble there's no place like home
home home on the range where the deer and the antelope play
home - where my heart is waiting silently for me
home is ... everything falling into place

home is ... father and daughter stories, summer poems, happiness poems,
quotes about home,
explorations, reflections, thoughts
on something I know when I feel it - home

home is .. different things and yet the same thing - there's no place like home

outward bound, homeward bound, chosen home, o give me a home,
hearth, heartland, home cooking, home baking, home fries, chosen home,
home schooling, home fooling, home and garden,
family, street, neighborhood, chosen home, countryside, familiar sights and sounds,
safety, security, comfort, a roof over my head, a place to put my bags down, a place to call my own,

home exploration through father and daughter stories,
summer poems, happiness poems,
quotes about home,
and more

the world is my home, the world is my oyster, born with a silver spoon in her mouth,
not a dime to her name, without two nickels to rub together, poor but happy, half starved to death,
homeless, roofless, rootless, uprooted, hungry, wretched, restless, wanderlust, leaving home,
wretched like a homeless child, the wretched of the earth, not a crust of bread, just the shirt on his back,
o give me a home, homing instinct, homey, homelike, home, chosen home,
my home my native land, homeland, mother tongue, father land, deep rooted,

home is ... father and daughter stories, summer poems, happiness poems,
quotes about home,
explorations, reflections, thoughts
on something I know when I feel it - home


at home in words, at home in ideas, at home among people, forever at home, never at home,
homeless and friendless, not a friend in the world, a friend in need is a friend indeed,
the luxury of choice, not feeling a home, out of place, o give me a home, my chosen home

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