Your home, and its surroundings, define you. Your personality, your hobbies, your affiliations, your influences.
A "welcome" mat with puppy paws, a "Grandma's House" sign in the window, or a roughly but carefully built bird house all act as windows into the resident's soul.
"Home is a place not only of strong affections, but of entire unreserve; it is life's undress rehearsal, its backroom, its dressing room." ~Harriet Beecher Stowe
So true about people and their homes. I think the bird that moves in here show great taste. I love older homes.
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ReplyDeleteLovely, lovely. The thoughts, the quotes, all bring us closer to an understanding of what "home" is really all about. And the birdhouse! It is "home" to a lucky family of birds, and represents the natural hospitality of the family who put it there. I love the way the photo directs our attention specifically towards the birdhouse, but subtly reminds us of the nurturing home behind it.
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