Beltane\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Waxing Flower Moon<\/p>\n
Most of my life happens at a right turn off a moderately busy secondary road somewhere in the heartland of the North American continent.\u00a0 This thought crossed my mind as I retrieved the orange fluorescent sign for our garage sale, the one posted at the corner of 153rd Ave. NW and Round Lake Boulevard.<\/p>\n
When I turned back into our lot, then went back in the house, I realized how rich and thick the world is inside our house and how thin it is on the road leading up to it.\u00a0 That’s not to say there’s nothing of interest along the way, of course there is.\u00a0 Other people’s rich thick worlds for one thing.\u00a0 The life of the oak, acacia and poplar woods\u00a0 that surrounds our homes for another.<\/p>\n
My comment is not so much about the thin world leading up to our door as the contrast between my experience of our home and of that space.\u00a0 In here we have taken pains to have rooms devoted to particular needs.\u00a0 In those rooms our life has taken place, at least our domestic life, for just at 15 years.\u00a0 Memories.<\/p>\n
We create here, too.\u00a0 Kate quilts; I write.\u00a0 We create a life together, a buttress of support for our family and our selves.\u00a0 The garden and the flower beds, now multiple, have years of labor represented in their current configuration, labor that has made this place an intimate acquaintance.<\/p>\n
This is\u00a0 home.\u00a0 Home is where the heart is, yes, but it also where life is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Beltane\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Waxing Flower Moon Most of my life happens at a right turn off a moderately busy secondary road somewhere in the heartland of the North American continent.\u00a0 This thought crossed my mind as I retrieved the orange fluorescent sign for our garage sale, the one posted at the corner of 153rd Ave. NW and … Continue reading Life At A Right Turn Off A Moderately Busy Secondary Road<\/span>