On Home

[mlerules]

Home as where you leave your shoes. Poly-homery? If we can each have many loves, can we also have many homes, many places where we're welcome(d), where we're loved, where we're appreciated, where we can and do choose to leave shoes? Leaving a pair of your shoes behind in lieu of or in addition to bringing your towel w/you.

Comments

[clayshaper.livejournal.com]

Poly-homery is the coolest concept ever. >:)

I never had a better nap last year, than the one I had in herne51's chair one day while waiting for his kiddos to comne home (as I was watchin' em after school that day and all) ...who knew his home and chair could be home too, if only for a nap.

I have GREAT naps at OLOTEAS, in the library, on the sofa or chair of choice... AWESOME stuff.

I couldn't sleep at Hecate's Sickle for a bit, I went and had tea with darkzelda98011 and caliban1227 and a handful of others (non-lj but happy ATC sorts!) ... we had tea. We expressed a very few ideas. We all eventually called it a night, and I never slept so good in my cabin, which was shared by u2rgoddess and valeri0n and a buncha folks I didn't know. :)

Many homes! Yay!

...of course, if I were designing my private commune-haven-community... we'd each have our private rooms, plus areas that we could share, when wanted- because the next best thing to sleeping in a dogpile, or a room fulla people... is sleeping in yer own damn bed. ;) heh heh heh

[mlerules.livejournal.com]

if I were designing my private commune-haven-community... we'd each have our private rooms, plus areas that we could share, when wanted- because the next best thing to sleeping in a dogpile, or a room fulla people... is sleeping in yer own damn bed.

A-MEN!

[vismaya-viewer.livejournal.com]

Ditto! :o)

[shivana.livejournal.com]

AMen to the last part. That's ALWAYS been a rule in my household(s) is that even the children get there own space wthere it be a bedroom or just a desk in the dining room, they were there. It makes things a TON easier.

[clayshaper.livejournal.com]

For me, it's easy... I can share my private space with my mate (lucky me!) and don't mind the dog in there too (bedding/etc) ...so for me, a desk anywhere I don't mind sharing (like oh, the bathroom wouldn't work too good for me. :P A study is fine, etc) and a tiny space big enough for our bed and the dog bed is plenty!

We did debate tho- currently our desks are in the living room, because we live with only us and the beasties... but if someone else lived here, would we want to trade out, and put the desks and bed and beasties upstairs (there is a loft-like bedroom up there, quite big), and the newcomer downstairs? Since that would afford the communal space (living room) more... communal? Or would we all just add a third computer and go for it? (grins)

My guess is the former- I don't do anything UBER private on my computer... but i like to watch TV while I crap around... and sometimes, we study... so.

Uh. yeah. Like anyone needed to know any of that. :P sometimes I need a new brain.

[sidhefire.livejournal.com]

That's super cool... Poly-homery... where you leave your shoes....
K.. now we're going to have to put a shoe rack by the door.....

[stacymckenna.livejournal.com]

Amen. Absolutely.

[damiana-swan.livejournal.com]

As I keep saying (and I really need to write the essay out sometime) ... home is a verb. Home isn't a place, it's something, like community, like family, like love, that people work to create. You can create home by yourself, or you can create it with other people, and once it's created you can share it with others as well. As with love and family and community, the work of creating home is an ongoing thing, and what home is will grow and evolve as the needs of the people creating also grow and evolve.

[mlerules.livejournal.com]

To Home. I like it!

[delerium3.livejournal.com]

Hm, I like it.

[shivana.livejournal.com]

I love you and your brain.
May I quote this for my RQOD?

[mlerules.livejournal.com]

But of course - I'd be honored.

[starrgiver.livejournal.com]

I usually leave a few cans of Tab (my step-mom got me hooked when I was a kid and no one else ever seems to be able to find it...), but the principle is the same. And I have entirely lost count of all the people who have keys to my apartment... Maybe 20-ish, by this point...

Polyhomery... what a lovely word...

Thank you...

[mlerules.livejournal.com]

You're most welcome. And I've got a virtual pair of shoes for you wherever I happen to be...

[(Anonymous)]

thank you so much!

and I have a virtual key for you...