“This is our climate. We have grown up in this air, this light, and we grasp it on our skin, where it grasps us. We know this earth, this grass, this polished red stone with the soles of our feet. We will never be ourselves anywhere else. Happier, perhaps, healthier, less burdened, more secure. But we will never be closer to who we are than this.”
Source: Portrait with Keys: The City of Johannesburg Unlocked
“As soon as I stepped outside, the scent of the lake hit me full force – twisting something deep within me – something that recognized this place as home. Home is where your heart is. I'd never been able to find another town with enough heart to suit me because my heart had always been here – waiting for me to return.”
Source: The Lights of Sugarberry Cove
“Home is where we celebrate and where we grieve, where we are hurt, broken and healed, and made whole again.”
Source: Simply Tuesday: Small-Moment Living in a Fast-Moving World
“I want to remember how God set the longing for his kingdom in my heart and that when I settle for less than him, I'll always be homesick.”
Source: Simply Tuesday: Small-Moment Living in a Fast-Moving World
“...home should be the safest place on earth to take a risk.”
Source: Simply Tuesday: Small-Moment Living in a Fast-Moving World
“...home is wherever I am because Christ has made his home in me.”
Source: Simply Tuesday: Small-Moment Living in a Fast-Moving World
“We’ve stayed so far away from home for so long.
We’ve forgotten the road that takes us home.”
Source: Our Nepal, Our Pride
“The only home you can dwell sacredly is your heart.”
“How can I explain it to you, so you would understand? I’ve seen everything . . . and I’ve hardly been away from this yard. I’ve seen cathedrals in the snow on the Lombardy poplars. I’ve seen the sun set behind the Alps over there when the clouds have been piled up on the edge of the prairie. I’ve seen the ocean billows in the rise and the fall of the prairie grass.”
Source: A Lantern in Her Hand
“Perhaps we live in a wilder place than we give ourselves credit for.
Scots tend to be hardy perennials.
It's as if we've evolved to withstand the challenging nature of our own country.
And what's more, we've worked out how to shape it into a force for good.
Out of necessity our homes feature clever ways to keep the outside out and the inside warm.
Scotland's oldest towerhouses were built with slits for windows not just as a defensive measure, but to protect residents from the elements.
Out of problems came solutions, even beauty.
Our foreparents thought to install open fires to heat their homes then toiled to make them easy on the eye.
Intricately carved wooden fireplaces and elaborate hearths that referenced Scottish folklore followed.”
Source: The Art of Coorie: How to Live Happy the Scottish Way