tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2919780691350257469.post944589448658229246..comments2023-04-17T05:35:42.382-07:00Comments on cadence: Heart is where the home isPam Morrisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01422149903301168261noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2919780691350257469.post-35724052182616312242010-05-17T04:05:21.359-07:002010-05-17T04:05:21.359-07:00Melissa, I have found this late in the piece, and ...Melissa, I have found this late in the piece, and you may not revisit .. but I have really enjoyed reading your response. Home is such an interesting concept. Such an interesting relationship. And like finding a lover, it can't be conjured, and yet there's something about being ready that makes it possible... I remember, when I found this place, scoffing the notion that things can't you happy. I was deliriously happy, and it was this oh so tangible thing that had done it.Or should I say, all those non-tangibles that can't be named or simply claimed. All a bit of a mystery. I wish you well as you open up to new possibilities of home. Fingers crossed for me too.Pam Morrisonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01422149903301168261noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2919780691350257469.post-86472352986579846092010-04-19T05:51:53.791-07:002010-04-19T05:51:53.791-07:00Oh, this post is so good for me.
Because the house...Oh, this post is so good for me.<br />Because the house my mother loved, a year after her death when I was twelve, was sold, the furnishings she had so carefully chosen were disposed of, dispensed with, I somehow lost trust in the idea of home...<br />Now, at 71, I do have a house, have had for many years, but haven't really settled it as a 'home...' but I want to change that, change this house, move somewhere for the lastish part of my life and take on the issue of 'home.'<br /> I admire your simplifying and admire that you were able to stitch yourself to this lovely environment for however long...<br />and wish you well over the next nine months as you move along in your transition.<br />thank youmelissashookhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02398008713376655570noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2919780691350257469.post-72052334982083691342010-04-11T21:53:59.092-07:002010-04-11T21:53:59.092-07:00This comment has been removed by the author.Hughhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11668194351761060788noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2919780691350257469.post-43119562903036403742010-04-11T01:13:29.165-07:002010-04-11T01:13:29.165-07:00Thanks you both for your resonancing. (No such wor...Thanks you both for your resonancing. (No such word but there should be). Its an ever-changing inner landscape. Elisabeth, your comment - the echo of goodbye in every hello.. What a challenge life lays at our feet. A person I spoke to recently talked about the wisdom she gained from two different retreats she attended - one focused on Buddhist meditation, the other with a Jewish Rabbi. The focus of the former - detachment, and the wisdom of the second (in her words): "attach attach attach". And of course both are true, in order to live well. The secret may be as you say Elisabeth, in creating a large inner receptacle, where all emotions are welcome, in any combination they choose to come! Thanks again xPam Morrisonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01422149903301168261noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2919780691350257469.post-37600714705942709052010-04-08T04:18:54.553-07:002010-04-08T04:18:54.553-07:00Pam, this is such a poignant post - the stuff of l...Pam, this is such a poignant post - the stuff of leaving home, of moving on and of change. <br /><br />The Australian writer, Gillian Bouras writes in A Foreign Wife, the story of her life as an expatriot in Greece, <br /><br />‘In the first hello I know I will hear the echo of goodbye.’ <br /><br />I take comfort from these words. <br /><br />To me, happiness is where the home and the heart coexist and happiness does not occur in isolation, it survives alongside all the other emotions. <br /><br />Journey well.Elisabethhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04015624747225433940noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2919780691350257469.post-21162312212730811562010-04-07T17:13:16.575-07:002010-04-07T17:13:16.575-07:00Oh, Pam. Pangs! But you sound so certain, too. Or ...Oh, Pam. Pangs! But you sound so certain, too. Or accepting. See you soon, x PPenelopehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04557747956609276030noreply@blogger.com