Home should be an oratorio of the memory,
singing to all our after life melodies and
harmonies of old remembered joy.
– Henry Ward Beecher
Home is the nicest word there is.
– Laura Ingalls Wilder
Home is where, when you cross its threshold,
you finally feel at peace.
– Dennis Lehane
A home is one of the most sacred of places.
It is a sanctuary into which men flee from the
world’s perils and alarms.
It is a resting-place to which at close of day the weary
retire to gather new strength for the
battle and toils of tomorrow.
It is the place where love learns its lessons,
where life is schooled into discipline and strength,
where character is molded.
– J.R. Miller
Home is where one starts from.
– T.S. Eliot
Where thou art, that is home.
– Emily Dickenson
Home is any four walls that enclose the right person.
– Helen Rowland
Nor need we power or splendor,
wide hall or lordly dome;
the good, the true, the tender-
these form the wealth of home.
– Sarah J. Hale
Home is the place where, when you have to go there,
they have to take you in.
– Robert Frost
It takes a lot of living to make a house a home
It doesn’t make any difference how rich you get to be
How much your chairs and tables cost, how great your luxury
It isn’t home to you though it be the palace of a king,
Until somehow your soul is wrapped round everything.
– Paraphrase of Edgar Guest poem, Home
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30 replies on “Finding Home”
My goodness, I’m struck by the magnitude of “home”, the diversity (and comfort in every home, it feels when viewing), which shows the dynamic capabilities of humans to live and be at peace as long as there is “home”, meager or opulent, if it’s “home” then there is peace within.
YOUR PICTURES…..ARE AMAZING ALONG WITH AMAZING LINES..
A HOME IS A PLACE WHERE A FAMILY LIVES WITH EACH OTHER ACCEPTING THEIR FLAWS……WITH LOVE..
REALLY INSPIRING
Simply…. amazing and beautiful! A breathtaking journey among people and cultures…
As our Mind/Spirit is without knowing boundaries, for sure each one of us had the chance to live in some of these corners around the world… life’s after lifes. This I love to think since I feel myself like being a citizen of the world! :-)claudine
Truly excellent environmental portraiture but I’m also liking your landscapes.
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Hi Stevebhai, my uncle has introduced me to your blogs. They are always beautiful and meaningful. Your subject matter is usually things that we experience every day but don’t think too deeply about and then you bring it up and take us on a world journey. Excellent as always.
“Ah! There’s nothing like staying home for real comfort.” -Jane Austen
Stories everywhere. Your photos and themes are always thought provoking and inspiring.
Home sweet home 🙂
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An idea that resides within: home.
Fabulous portrayal of the many ways habitation makes a home. Stunning photos and touching stories that almost certainly live inside. Thank you!
I’m looking forward to your exhibition in Porto, Portugal. As for this post I must say the concept of home has been spinning in my head for the past eight months, when I realised that I would have to say good-bye to my parents’ house, where I lived for over 20 years. That WAS home. I don’t know why it is so difficult… Anyway, I will go through your post over and over again and hope it will help me figure it out . There are not many people who can understand humanity the way you do. Thank you, Steve.
Lovely photos and quotes. Made me focus on the gratitude I feel for my home. Thank you.
What a beautyfull world as say our friend Louis Armstrong. Many thanks for your fantastics pictures.
Hi Steve , i am enthusiastic about these beautiful photos. Thanks
Beautiful.
I love your blog and your wonderful insightful photographs. This blog is my favorite to date. Thank you for sharing your work.
Outstanding series, depicting ‘home is where the heart is’
Home Sweet Hovel
Once again, a beautiful set of photographs from all over the world and equally beautiful quotes .
Thank you Stevebhai.
“It’s funny. When you leave your home and wander really far, you always think, ‘I want to go home.’ But then you come home, and of course it’s not the same. You can’t live with it, you can’t live away from it. And it seems like from then on there’s always this yearning for some place that doesn’t exist. I felt that. Still do. I’m never completely at home anywhere.”
A wonderful collection, illustrating diversity and humanity
your pictures always move me. Thanks.
Thank you for always taking me to faraway places I will never otherwise see ~ and to see it through such artistic eyes ~ only to bring me home again to a neighborhood near where I grew up, and one I have visited many times.
I was Homesick for a place I only heard of as a child. My grandparents were far away. Our family was constantly on the move all my childhood. Coming home to the place that had been a yearning in my mother’s stories is a memory that will never leave me.
And you came home at the end…
A beautiful collection of photographs that capture the humanity of all of our neighbours, where ever they live and whatever their socio-economic situation. Thanks,
Home is where the heart is, and made images of homes of all kinds. I love that you ended with your family home, Steve. A moving collection.
Steve, After traveling the whole wide world, where do you call “home”?..
Love your work.. Fran P.
I always eagerly wait for your notification. It’s always great learning for me.