Reply #18: Home [View All]

[sweetheart]

Myself, home is a feeling, one that i've had on many parts of the
earth. I feel the whole earth as my body and my dearest love, deep
down and i am home. What a dwelling house has to do with that?

Yet, in scotland, it is called a "house" and the lie of "home" is
something else. Perhaps as people have a right to be housed in the UK,
there is not this angst for "home". The local council (city), provides
residence for all homeless persons in any place... it is the law.
Then a house is not just for the rich, but everyone, and it is not
a marketing advantage to re-brand it as "home".

But there is that ephemeral sensation of belonging, that after working
a lifetme, and accumulating all the wealth and knowledge of that, to be
less closer to having a home than when one was born; THAT is a tragedy.
Then perhaps "home" is supposed to be where mommy birthed you, and that
it represents your spiritual connection with life, death and the earth,
a place you always return to, because "family" is there.

And then we're on to the media myth of the family, and how squeezing out
a few kids makes your house in to a home. Maybe home is a cemetary
where all the family, its hopes and dreams of a free, democratic
country, are buried in the dust. Yet home is already present, and
no amount of going there will ever get you where you already are.

There is a kernel of marketing truth in your home/house thing, that
is very valuable to the new framers of the Dean-take-back-the-country
thing... and i look forward to seeing their work.