February 12, 2009

  • Home ownership

    Over seven months, and it’s still a novelty to me to be here. Three moments of homecoming:

    -being housebound in illness for a season, I sense the solidity of the house around me, capable of containing our greatest hopes and greatest fears

    -during the holidays, I am struck in the thought that my parent’s house is no longer home, as it had seemed since I moved out for school, and later for work

    -as a property owner as well as a homeowner, I go outside inappropriately dressed to do a task, realizing after that I didn’t consider it to be ‘going out in public,’ and then relishing the thought of becoming an eccentric neighbour

Comments (1)

  • What kind of illness lasts a whole season?  You poor thing! 

    Let’s see.  All my soups are superb and I almost never use a recipe.  But I have a really good split pea recipe.  I think my favorite is butternut squash, though.

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