A guide to the well-lived life, covering everything from relationships and culture to our place in the natural world.

Explores our longing for sanctuary, considering everything from climate migration and new work patterns to our mythology of home. A treasure trove of journalism, art, and storytelling.

Considers ancient traditions of honoring the hearth and modern challenges of rootlessness, lack of time, and loss of place. A meditation on our sense of longing and belonging---and our search of home wherever we can find it.

INSPIRATION

Toni Morrison: Where the Heart Is

“I’ve had many kinds of jobs, but have never considered the level of labor to be the measure of myself (or) placed the security of a job above the value of home.”

Mary Oliver’s Miniature House

Oliver on the building process: “I was involved, frustrated, devoted, resolved, nicked and scraped and delighted…I was whimsical, absorbed, happy.”

John O’Donohue’s Soulful Home

“When you visit someone at home, the door into the house…is rich with the textures of presence from all the welcomes and valedictions that have occurred on that threshold.”

College Applicants Clean Up

This year’s surprising theme for college application essays: Students have learned that the world works a lot better when people clean up after themselves.

Sensuous Housekeeping

We devour books like The Magical Art of Tidying Up because they teach us how to groom our homes and keep them free from clutter. Yet we hunger for a rich and sensuous affair with home that makes us want to hunker down and never leave it.

The Mindful Home

What does home mean in a culture that feeds on instant gratification? How does it provide a safe haven in a world that moves too fast and demands too much? Learn how to get centered as you create your own domestic rituals.