“I thought of a great way to celebrate my Finnish heritage at home. I'm going to look into opening a chain of strip clubs, and I'll call them Lapland!!!” WayLooksHomeClubsOpeningCelebrateChainsHeritageFinnishLapland Author:Pamela Anderson
“Since I have an aversion to movies in which people say grace at the dinner table (not to the practice but to how movies use it to establish the moral strength of a household), the opening night montage of Sunday-night supper in one home after another in Waxahachie, Texas in 1935 - a whole community saying grace made me expect the worst.” PeopleMadeWholeUseHomeNightCommunityMoralPracticeGraceWorstTablesDinnerOpeningSundayTexasHouseholdAversionSupperDinner TableSunday NightOpening NightMoral Strength Author:Pauline Kael
“The world worlds, and is more fully in being than the tangible and perceptible realm in which we believe ourselves to be at home...By the opening up of a world, all things gain their lingering and hastening, their remoteness and nearness, their scope and limits. In a world's worlding is gathered that spaciousness out of which the protective grace of the gods is granted and withheld. Even this doom of the god remaining absent is a way in which the world worlds...All coming to presence...keeps itself concealed to the last.” WorldWayBelieveHomeLastsGraceLimitsGainsAll ThingsInsightOpeningGrantedRealmsScopeDoomAbsentProtectiveTangibleConcealedOpening UpLingeringSpaciousnessRemoteness Author:Martin Heidegger
“I studied and worked in a Chinese restaurant to support myself. People would say to me 'Oh you must be missing home', but I had grown up hard. I was so happy to be there. I had never even been in a supermarket before coming to America. At home, my parents wouldn't let me open the refrigerator, because they worried I'd damage the door by opening it too many times.” PeopleHardHomeAmericaParentSupportDoorsMissingLet MeOpeningChineseWorriedDamageRestaurantsSupermarketsRefrigeratorsComing To America Author:Wendi Deng Murdoch
“For the long-limbed trees and watery landscape of Vancouver Island, read Hundreds and Thousands. Setting aside, who can resist a woman who lived in a caravan in Goldstream Park with a pack of dogs and a monkey and shunned the human race except to attend her own art openings? Only a genius could both paint and write my/her home.” WritingHumansLongArtHomeRaceTreeDogGeniusPaintSettingOpeningSettingsLandscapeHuman RaceIslandsParksPacksMonkeysVancouverCaravans Author:Marjorie Celona