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  • 22/08/2008 @ 03:45 Jomo said:
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    Wolfie got me thinking [wow!  well done, Wolfie!] about what 'home' means. 

     

    So I ask - what is 'home' to you?  

     

    A place, a feeling, where loved ones are? 

     

    Does it change? 

     

    Can you change it just by thinking?

  • 22/08/2008 @ 04:11 rawrs said:
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    I believe that "home" is the place were all your worries are gone, where you don't have doubts or sadness i believe that our "home" is different for each of us. This sense of home could be within a person, place or just in our selves. I also believe that its one of the only thing that drives us to work for a better life, so we can find our home. So we can find where we belong in such a chaotic world, so we can finally have that small peace.

    Home to me is when i dont have to worry about anything. When i love life even more then i already do. Its when i wish things would never end. 

  • 22/08/2008 @ 09:15 Wolfie said:
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    I suppose it is rather like when my children leap over the threshold of their bedrooms and cry 'homey' - it is a place in which they feel safe - a place where the monster (my husband) can't get them.

     

    I have lots of places I can call 'homey' - some are mine and some are other people's. They are places where I feel safe and can be myself.

     

    Wx

  • 22/08/2008 @ 13:10 UMxx said:
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    Wolfie got you thinking Jomo and now you've got us thinking .... I wish there was an end to thinking about some things.  Where and what is home?

     

    Home is the bush - scrub, a chair that makes a lap for a cat and a dog and a couple of kids to sit on, a cuddle from the lovely man I married, the smell of my own sheets fresh on the bed, talking to someone with an accent like mine (that doesn't happen often), smells - a sorghum harvest, burning cane, drought dust, rain on the way, a dry wind, the ocean, my kids hair after a bath - and before a bath for that matter.  

     

    It is the familiar, the triggers of thinking of loved ones and feeling loved and safe, the triggers of happiness and happy times.

     

    It isn't the building, the address, but it might happen there.  Enough thinking   UM xxxxx

  • 22/08/2008 @ 13:21 shopno said:
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    Home for me is where my heart feels most alive; it is no longer associated with addresses and houses, more about company I enjoy;-i.e.-Harrry Potter books insid emy duvet, park bench near the lake, warm smiles and chats with loved ones, so I suppose I carry my home around with me in an invisible bag, that has immense space for me but is also weighs very little.
  • 23/08/2008 @ 00:20 Jomo said:
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    Thank you for that little glimpse of your life, Shopno - I can picture you under the duvet and by the lake - how wonderful.  And what a nice way to feel your 'home'.

     

     

    As I type this, my letters are multicoloured - black and purple and green and greyish - how odd. 

     

    I just wonder if they will be multicoloured on the TA, or if this is just my computer screen having fun with me...  Dang machines!  Think they can defeat me! No way, Jose!

  • 23/08/2008 @ 01:29 Mebenji said:
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    Hi Jomo, in her happy home,

    Me, nope, 'home' is just a four-letter word, just something I say the same as I say 'unit' or 'flat' - I go home, I go back to my flat/unit. It is the same for me.

    I don't think I will ever feel at home until I feel it in myself, at home within myself, safe and inpentetrable. (literally and figuratively, I admit) If I can feel there cannot possibly be an intrusion/transgression, upon the space around me, which often feels like incoming fire from within as well - it's a problem I feel keenly sometimes, but it is hard to explain so others would understand. Home is most definitely about much more than place...it is a state of mind and heart; I feel so insecure, whereas if I felt at home, I would be feeling secure in my space and myself.

    -Mebenji

    Humm very curious about the coloured lettera, Jomo - not synesthesia? Doesn't have to be that. My faulty eyes, I tend to see odd colour tints, edges, after-images and I think new, odd patterns in dim light, on white, looks like fine mosaic tiles, with reddish lines - oh guess I wiill have to draw it, something like what I mean. So fine, it will be hard though....I was tired, my eyes have been irritated lately...very curious...

  • 23/08/2008 @ 02:20 Jomo said:
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    Well.  I do have synaethesia [or however you spell it] but not complete for numbers - just some numbers never change colour, others are all over the place.  But I do have a definite 'sense' confusion between smell/odours and emotions - so will more likely smell smoke, than feel danger - then when I realise that I am smelling smoke, or smokiness, I understand the danger.  And the smoke is not always the same - different smoky smells.  Odd, I know. 

    All my letter 'l's in this, and 'i's, are purple.  How odd.  Not when it comes out on the TA, though.

    Safety is really vital for 'homesense' I am sure.  I feel safe here where I am, I feel that I have privacy - and so I am starting to think this is home - which is really wonderful - I wish that for you with all my heart, Mybenj!

    Love to you all - XXXXXXXXXX [now in pale grey and purple - think my monitor is telling me it is going to cark it... ow, had a flat tyre two days ago, can't accept a broken monitor for at least a month...]

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