{"id":12199,"date":"2011-11-29T19:31:35","date_gmt":"2011-11-30T01:31:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=12199"},"modified":"2011-11-29T19:31:35","modified_gmt":"2011-11-30T01:31:35","slug":"mi-casa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=12199","title":{"rendered":"Mi Casa"},"content":{"rendered":"

Samain\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Moon of the Winter Solstice<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Much as I enjoyed the travel, the close time with Kate, the ocean, new cultures and places, I find this computer and my own keyboard, my reference shelf and my library, mementos from past trips, family, collected art like slipping into a pair of comfortable bedroom slippers.\u00a0 At its best travel allows for renewal, challenge, broadening, but an unexpected and forgotten pleasure, perhaps never noticed before, is this lifting up of home.<\/p>\n

Home as reality and as metaphor carries a special valence for all of us, one way or the other.\u00a0 I moved so often for the first 40+ years of my life I never had the time, the digging into a place where I could really feel home.\u00a0 Here in Andover, although the burb itself is nada as place, the home Kate and I have created nourishes both of us.\u00a0 We have space for our mutual creative work, space for mutual work outside and in, leisure space and fitness space.<\/p>\n

Over the years, as is the case with most family homes, our sons have developed memories here, now grandchildren and in-laws, too.\u00a0 Animals, both present and past, inhabit the hallways and the woods.\u00a0 Storms past, challenges met and overcome, Thanksgiving, Hanukah, Christmas, birthdays, honey harvests.\u00a0 All here.<\/p>\n

Home.\u00a0 This trip made me appreciate it more than I ever have.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Samain\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Moon of the Winter Solstice Much as I enjoyed the travel, the close time with Kate, the ocean, new cultures and places, I find this computer and my own keyboard, my reference shelf and my library, mementos from past trips, family, collected art like slipping into a pair of comfortable bedroom slippers.\u00a0 At its … Continue reading Mi Casa<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60,1268,65,11,87,13,473,12,3],"tags":[279,1193],"class_list":["post-12199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aging","category-bees","category-family","category-friends","category-garden","category-our-land","category-retirement","category-travel","category-weather-climate","tag-andover","tag-home"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12199"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12203,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12199\/revisions\/12203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}