So there are two influences for today's post. The first is a quote from the Sue Monk Kidd book I wrote about earlier. She says, "I start to imagine the hearth not only as a place of being, but of creativity. Why couldn't it stand for tending to the present moment and also for the fiery combustion of creative work." The other influence was a book I was flipping through on early american homes. The introduction described the settlers who were confronted with the frontier and had to carve out a way of life. They brought with them cultural biases of their European heritage and could decide which ideas and conventions they wanted to preserve and which they wished to escape.
I am on a domestic kick at the moment. And I think tending to our domestic (for lack of a better word) lives can have more influence than we credited it with. The financial, social and emotional habits that get started in the home have a huge influence on the world at large. So let's draw up to our hearth- get warmth, nourishment and a fiery source for creativity. And let's carve out our acre. What will we preserve? What will we escape? And how are we to live? Any one in?
