A guide to the well-lived life. Reads like Brainpickings for the home, covering everything from relationships and culture to our place in the natural world.
ISABEL ALLENDEHOUSE OF THE SPIRITS
Poetic and inspiring. You'll want to polish a table until it glistens, fill your living room with roses, and thank the house for nurturing your dreams and hopes.
JEAN SHINODA BOLENGODDESSES IN EVERYWOMAN
Explores the ancient traditions of caring for the hearth while considering our modern challenges of rootlessness, lack of time, and daily stress. A hymn to our search for home---wherever we can find it.
PHIL COUSINEAUSOUL: AN ARCHAEOLOGY, THE BOOK OF ROADS
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POETRY

The Inner Life of an Extension Cord

Even the most household objects can have lofty goals. Consider the longings that Dougherty suggests, run like electric current through the mind of an extension cord, in his poem, The Romantic Quest:

Like Hummingbirds

that buzz and whir in their quest

for sweetness, the extension cord

is on a romantic search for beauty

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Life Lessons

Poet Richard Beban considers two life lessons: What to do when Joy gets in your eyes. How to say goodbye to a well-loved shirt.

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