that bind
over on Viewfinders this week, I spoke of cleaning out, purging, cutting through all the needless material stuff I have saved throughout my life.
However, there are some things to be held on to and passed down
from one generation to the next
They are the words, pictures, fibers and threads
of our story
“I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.”
~ G. Bachelard, The Poetics of Space
“Happiness, not in another place but this place…not for another hour, but this hour.”
~ Walt Whitman
“Home, imagined, comes to be. It is real, realer than any other place, but you can’t get to it unless your people show you how to imagine it – whoever your people are. They may not be your relatives. They may never have spoken your language. They may have been dead for a thousand years. They may be nothing but words printed on paper, ghosts of voices, shadows of minds. But they can guide you home.”
~ Ursula K. Le Guin
“Leave the door open for the unknown, the door into the dark. That’s where the most important things come from, where you yourself came from, and where you will go.”
~ Rebecca Solnit
Licht Years 