Home...

...is where the heart is?
...there's no place like it?
...sweet, home?

Lately, I've been thinking about what a 'home' means. Maybe it's because I've been away so long, maybe it's because I'm in 'organizing mode', or maybe it has something to do with SouleMama's '30 Days of the Everyday'. Whatever it may be, my mind has been churning. Different images conjured up, thoughts, sights, smells, concepts. All these and more embrace the concept of 'home'. And I'm trying to establish them firmly.

My goal for this year is to simplify. SIMPLIFY. Although I feel my home almost always contradicts this ideal, it is something I will strive for. I want to surround myself with love and those things that I love most. I think that's a good goal.

So I'll leave you with two thoughts. The first is a quote by Kaylynn Devene, a photographer.
I look, too, for domestic patterns and arrangements, practiced daily routines that make us feel at home or that confirm - or conform to - our ideas of what home should be.
The second is a question. Over the next week I'm going to be coming up with ideas, items, anything that exemplifies the concept of home. If you all were to make a list of what home means to you, what would be on it?