Tuesday 4 - Home Where the Heart Is

1. What do you think of this picture.. the staircase. Do you like how it looks?  Does it say "home" to you? Would you like something that looks like this?
   
   Yes, it looks like someone's home. So it does say "home".
   In fact it looks like a neat version of my favorite hotel.
   
   
2. Did you love growing up in your family home? Could you live in a house like that today?
   
   The home where I grew up was modern for the time. My mother has OCD... one would call it that now. So everything was measured, clean, straight, and she wouldn't have allowed any gaps between the stairs and the cover.
   I didn't love the house It was no home.
   And I wouldn't like to live there now.
   
   
3. What did your bedroom look like when you were a teen?
   
   I had a bed in a cupboard, as they called it. So each evening I had to open the door and pull the bed out. Before tht I had to move a chair.
   It was a real seventies room. The decoration! Orange chair. My desk against the wall, so I wouldn't bedistracted. Lots of books and tiny keepsakes. And a painting against the wall my gram gave me and which is now in the room where I sit here.
   
   
4. What kind of vibes or atmosphere do you like to foster in your home today?  Sophisticated, homey?
   
   A place to live in. Cosey. Bit weird. Full of stuff that represent memories.

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About **Syl

Syl: "Life is a chain of challenges. Sometimes the largest challenges are we ourselves. Facing life, facing others and facing yourself requires either a worryless attitude or plain courage. Most of the time it is dealing with judgement. Maybe life is about getting rid of it."