Home

The sanctity of home is one of the most precious spaces that exist. We often treat it with less dignity than we should, for the purposes it serves are unsurmountable. Firstly, after a long day away, it opens its arms to all that arrive, and provides warmth, comfort, silence, a resolve.

After completing, The Shining Houses, by Alice Munro, a short story and a must read. I have come to comprehend that home presides in some people more than human connections. "Husbands may come and go but a home of 50 years, well that is just where I know things are." I learned more about my home through her than I'd imagined.

Renovations are my love and our home has lost walls, rugs, flooring, and for some this is a process, for me it is a love of creating a space for energy to be recuperated, a reading room where language filters, fills and creates fanciful escapes, with light streaming in, what could be more Shakespearean than creating my next masterpiece.

Going against builders molds, our home has become a place for ingenuity to take hold, we've placing laminate on a wall, not the floor, take that. And, we are placing windows in walls that aren't one the outside, simply allowing more light to shine through rooms. Wooden doors have glass in them now and a hanging door to place paintings on is our motto.

Instead of large garden beds, we've been using large, huge tubs to grow: carrots, beets, kale, kale and more kale, onions, garlic and tomatoes. So the next time someone tells you to do something a la carte, tell them your going ROUGE.

We are presently in Seattle for a week, staying in apartments that were refurbished into a hotel, and our bathroom is 2 rooms blown into one, closets with all our clothes is adjacent to the washroom and to the shower. Saves time, space and it is so cool. Our living quarters are small, quaint and unique with a feel of 1950 in the window décor along with our chairs, painting, and the fancy intercom system to order Hal's beer from the bar, 4 floors down. The best part, it is 4 blocks from the conference center and 2/3 less the price. Free Starbucks coffee in the morning and by the speed I'm typing at nothing can stop me now.