Wordgrove Post & Review

Quoted in The Grove:
A house means a family house, a place specially meant for putting children and men in so as to restrict their waywardness and distract them from the longing for adventure and escape they’ve had since time began.
~Marguerite Duras

The worst feeling in the world is the homesickness that comes over a man occasionally when he is at home.
~Edgar Watson Howe

Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.
~Twyla Tharp

EndQuote:
How often have I lain beneath rain on a strange roof, thinking of home.
~William Faulkner

 

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Prewritten Exercise Theme:  secret

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Posted from the Grove

Home is a place you grow up wanting to leave, and grow old wanting to get back to.
~John Ed Pearce

A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.
~George A Moore

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Music: Three different treatments of home

~Sophie Zelmani:  Going Home   (3:19)

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~Melodickabros:  Country Roads, Take Me Home   (3:54 of 7:39)

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~Mary Fahl:  Going Home   (3:40)

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CGI Video:  Home, Sweet Home   (9:58)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKRZn0uS6eA

 

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The fellow that owns his own home is always just coming out of a hardware store.
~Kin Hubbard

Home, nowadays, is a place where part of the family waits till the rest of the family brings the car back.
~Earl Wilson

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Talent Light
© Silvia Trujillo

 

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Be he a king or a peasant, he is happiest who finds peace at home.
~Goethe

Peace – that was the other name for home.
~Kathleen Norris

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@Writers Platform

Prewritten Theme:  home

~BarTalk:
home bears a resemblance to yesterday

the windows are open
the views are familiar
the table’s my setting
chairs shaped to my liking
filled cupboard with favorites
friend Memory visits
new company welcome
yet roads are the same
where safe rhymes with stale
…and nothing changes

home bears a resemblance to yesterday
where the door is a gift
and the present is now

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Strange

Home stoned with the strange
Where the Dear Johns and can’t-elopes lay
Where ‘sell them’ is heard
A disparaging word
And the spies are thought naughty to play

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pooch on a porch

news is mad crazy
leaders all creepy
streets are all trashy
relationships messy
i am a dog and
this world is my home

mister’s a sharpie
the missus a harpie
the kids are unhappy
neighbors are crappy
and they have no dog
to make it a home

father paints and is artsy
mother’s life of the party
daughter’s a cutie
son honors his duty
i am their dog and
i give them a home

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Neanderthal home
foreign hardly alien
when faced with the stars

 

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I was born a long way from where I belong and I am on my way home.
~Bob Dylan

 

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