Honoring Home
Last night was “Honor Home”, the first gesture of the At Home project. It was quite an experience. Below are slideshows of home makers at play and the homes that people have made so far.
With the Home Team keeping our transformative learning hats on, Paul Loper asked me what I had discovered so far as a result of the At Home project. In answer….
I have increased my awareness of my experience of home.
Home is presence. Presence with oneself,
with each other, with the earth.
Feeling at home is something to cultivate in oneself. Through each breath, through appreciating, caring, resting, eating, choosing consciously.
As we interact with our environment, we may have the illusion that home is about making a nest full of physical things, but is it, really?
The act of making an external place called home is simply a way to cultivate the internal experience of home. Consciously and unconsciously, we nest to make a vessel for feeling at home.
The more we experience being at ease in our self, even as we move across multiple places and situations, the more connected and resilient we become.
This then speaks to the importance of play. Playing house in relationship, playing with being at home as a way to come home.
There is no place like home, Toto.
Please share here and there: What is home to you? When are you at home?
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