ON BEING
AT HOME -
IMPRESSIONS
Home? Anywhere, as
long as it's with my
family.
Anywhere, except with
my parents.
On the hockey rink
with my team.
In my bedroom when
it's raining, listening to
the rain
on the roof.
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ON BEING AT HOME:
THOUGHTS
MY FATHER, MY SELF
MY CHOSEN HOME
HOME WORLD
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POEMS along with
THOUGHTS
IN MY OWN,
MY CHOSEN HOME
SUMMER'S PASSING
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POEMS
IN MY OWN,
MY CHOSEN HOME
SUMMER'S PASSING
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INTERACTIVE FLASH
MUSIC VIDEO!!
SUMMER'S PASSING
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HOME IS ...
many voices
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HOME -
first version - 2006
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ON BEING AT HOME – A
REFLECTION
At some point, if we’re lucky, we
know we're at home. MORE

At some point, if we’re lucky, we
know we're at home. We choose to stay where we were born – that's
where we know we want to be. Or we move and settle elsewhere, sometimes
in the same area, sometimes in a far-off part of the world – and
find that's right for us. Sometimes we do the choosing. Sometimes
we know when we've come to the right spot – it's as if our home
space has been waiting for us. If we're very lucky, we feel at home in
many places, any place we happen to find ourselves.
Home
may be ever-changing.
And
what feels right at one time may not at another.
Some
people never find what feels like home.
But what does it mean: home, a chosen home, being at
home, not being at home?
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I've been wondering about that for years.
But then
my father died, and that brought up so much more. Like: what did home mean
to him, someone who left one continent to come to another, someone who never
seemed to have a full feeling of being at home except in his own home - and
even there, much often did not feel homey.
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Elsa
May 1, 2004
copyright © Elsa Schieder, 2004, 2015 - all rights reserved
publishing house - FlufferDuff Impressions, 2004, 2015 - all rights reserved

Home Is? What does it mean, to be at home?
Explorations, poems, plus.
Quotes about home, father and daughter stories,
summer poems, happiness poems, and more.
My father never felt at home.


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What is home? Home is ...
This whole exploration of home started with one word piece -
in my own, my chosen home.
It came to me as my own chosen home was starting to come together.
Click here for it.
This site is a home for me, a home I've never had -
a home for my creative works,
a home I've built, piece by piece.
Click here for the creativity blog,
where I've recorded some of the many steps it's taken,
to build the site.

All around are the places we live in. But what does it mean, to be at home?
My father never felt at home.
In My Own, My Chosen Home.
Explorations, reflections and word pieces on home.
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home is ... home place, chosen
home, home space, forever at home,
home is where the heart is, homeward bound, chosen home, my chosen home,
no matter how humble there's no place like home
home home on the range where the deer and the antelope play
home - where my heart is waiting silently for me
home is ... everything
falling into place
home is ... father and daughter stories, summer poems, happiness poems,
quotes about home,
explorations, reflections, thoughts
on something I know when I feel it - home
home is .. different things and yet the same thing - there's no place like home
outward bound, homeward bound, chosen home, o give me a home,
hearth, heartland, home cooking, home baking, home fries, chosen home,
home schooling, home fooling, home and garden,
family, street, neighborhood, chosen home, countryside, familiar sights and sounds,
safety, security, comfort, a roof over my head, a place to put my bags down,
a place to call my own,
home exploration through father and daughter stories,
summer poems, happiness poems,
quotes about home, and more
the world is my home, the world is my oyster, born with a silver spoon in her
mouth,
not a dime to her name, without two nickels to rub together, poor but happy,
half starved to death,
homeless, roofless, rootless, uprooted, hungry, wretched, restless, wanderlust,
leaving home,
wretched like a homeless child, the wretched of the earth, not a crust of bread,
just the shirt on his back,
o give me a home, homing instinct, homey, homelike, home, chosen home,
my home my native land, homeland, mother tongue, father land, deep rooted,
home is ... father and daughter stories, summer poems, happiness poems,
quotes about home,
explorations, reflections, thoughts
on something I know when I feel it - home
at home in words, at home in ideas, at home among people, forever at home, never
at home,
homeless and friendless, not a friend in the world, a friend in need is a friend
indeed,
the luxury of choice, not feeling a home, out of place, o give me a home, my chosen home
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