March 7, 2025 – Still Waters

How do you think about where you live
House v Home

If you happen to show someone the building
Do you say – that is our house or that is our home?

There are lots of ideas out there on the WWW
Most seem to conclude that
A house is a physical structure with walls a roof and a door
A home can be anywhere you live, that place, that structure made pleasant and safe by the people who live there

So what about you?
What are your thoughts

Is it just
A House – something that you are living in
or
A Home – the place where you are living but also where you feel comfortable and safe.

Are you content and thankful just to have a roof over your head
or
do you feel you must have things around you that you are able to relate to
Things that prove this place is yours – give you a sense of identity

‘Home is where the Heart is’

We often talk about the ‘family home’
Does that mean that those who are single, widowed or divorced, those with no one to love or share their place with live in a home or is it just a house?

Do those owners of immaculate places have a house or a home ?

Does owning the place make any difference?

I know on the few occasions we have rented I found I couldn’t form an attachment to the ‘House’. That’s all it was – A House we were living in

Because of circumstances at those times, we were actually renting fully furnished so there wasn’t much we could do to make the place ‘ours’. Yes, we had some bits and pieces and knick knacks to dot here and there around the house but
We could never change the paint colour, decorate or alter in any other form, and in some cases not even put a nail in the wall to hang pictures.
So I never felt it was our ‘Home’

I’d love to know how others have felt if they’ve experienced living that way. Does being able to put your stamp on rented premises make it more homelike for you or have you accepted what has been offered as
‘this is it at the moment’.

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And what has put me into this ponderous mood?
A friend’s grandchild is ‘moving out’ and was talking about this very same thing the other day. The youngster’s not going very far though……just to the bottom of the garden into the Granny Flat that belonged to the other grandma😊

And talking of homes let’s spare a thought for those in the path of Cyclone Alfred as it makes its way towards the Queensland- New South Wales coastline. Unusual (but not unheard of)to have one come this far south it’s forecast to cross land on Saturday morning