Anne Lamott.
I love reading and re-reading Anne Lamott. She has whimsy and wisdom in spades and it's a great combination.
I think she is so right here - that when we love something it gives us a deep and meaningful connection to the world and beyond. It helps us feel part of the connectedness. We are a small moment in the ongoing story of folk throughout the ages who have enjoyed the same pastime, hobby or calling; been interested in the same things; dreamed similar dreams.
I love how she hits the sweet spot with the suggestion of alchemy where affinity and focus meet and create that feeling of home.
When I am making, at my desk, in the studio, hammering away I feel the most like me I can feel, and I feel deeply at home with myself and the world. The same goes for reading. When I sit and read I feel like I am home, that I am me.
I, too, very much like Anne Lamott and was fortunate enough to hear her speak once ... she writes as she speaks and speaks as she writes ... wry and wise and real
ReplyDeleteand her sense of 'home' along with your pieced house icons, likewise feel very true to what 'home' means to me ... so much more than place, it is a sixth sense, a feeling of rightness and peace
So so sorry for my slackness in replying Liz. I love the idea of home as sixth sense - it describes it so well for me. I 'know' a place is home or a way of being is 'home'. And I love that you have heard her speak - that would have been grand!
Delete