Tag: home

Tolkien understands the deepest of our longings and makes us understand them better than before.

They never quite got it when they asked me if I was “going home for Christmas” and I replied, “I live at home.”

We have, until this day, indulged in our individualistic reveries, imagining that we are always free to “light out for the Territory” and leave the ills of communal life behind us.

Will I die here? I don't know. I have tried living away from here and it does not work.

Many a time, I have seen my friend doting on his little seven-year-old half brother, picking him up from school, cooking for him, and keeping his classmates’ junk food at bay. Staying abroad and settling into some sort of upwardly mobile immigrant comfort would go against the grain of years of habit.

Even for the average homeowner, ownership all too often is imagined as a way of gaming income flow and consumption over a lifetime, accumulating enough to spend down before one has to become a ward of the welfare state. It is part of consumer society, not a buffer against it.

Kearneysville, WV. One thing I enjoy about the Christmas break is the chance to sit back and read a novel. For some months I...