Home is your second skin. Dwarves live under the ground, Elves in trees, and men and women live on the earth. Each tribe has a different character, a different outlook on life, and different homes to match.
A reader sent us an email this week and quoted Winston Churchill: "We shape our buildings, and afterwards our buildings shape us."
So True.
When we used to teach elementary school, we remember the story of the Innkeeper whose inn was full, but he opened his doors anyway.
One night, he heard a knock on the door. A cold and tired family stood on his step. It was a dark, snowy night, and there were wolves in the woods.
"Yes," he said, "I have room for you."
Then another knock came on his door. More people asking if he had any room.
"Yes," he said, "I have room for you."
Many people knocked on his door that night, and the Innkeeper let them all in. Somehow, there was always more room.
"Yes," he would say, "I have room for you."
In the end we realized that there was no logic to this, no counting of beds. The Innkeeper's home was as big as his heart; there was infinite room. His was a home that also was himself. It could grow as big as he could.
These are thoughts worth sharing during this month of mystery.
This from Winston Churchill:
