Home defined

I started this blog with the Dickens quote. It is something I cut out of a Real Simple magazine and pinned above my desk. I look and read it often. It reminds me that the idea of home is more than just a building, the structure, what it looks like, the stuff inside it. Home (and any other built environment that means something to you) is more about the people you share it with and the atmosphere you create.


Live lightly is a term I like to use to define how I would like to live, now and in the future. It's more than just being "green". It's about living simply. Only having and using that which you truly need to get by and make you happy. It is about your "stuff". Trying to balance how much stuff makes your life easier; giving you more time to enjoy the good things in life, and how much time your stuff takes away from you. There's a great quote from Wanda Urbanska, a PBS regular, about living simply: "People are starting to feel there is so much more to life. Everything you bring into your house becomes a responsibility. You have to care for it, clean it, and ultimately dispose of it." Too much of the wrong stuff and it can take away from the quality of your life. More to think about for later...
Ms. Urbanska's website:
http://www.simplelivingtv.net/

Home

"When I speak of home, I speak of the place where- in default of a better-those I love are gathered together; and if that place were a gypsy's tent, or a barn, I should call it by the same good name notwithstanding."

- Charles Dickens