Home as Hobby
The reading for July 29 in Simple Abundance by Sarah Ban Breathnach is titled The Home as a Hobby in which she quotes Arnold Bennett as follows:
“Nobody has the right to be bored in a half-made home. A home which is not a fair expression of us at our best, a home which lacks what it might have, a home which is in any part more ugly or in any part more uncomfortable than it absolutely need be . . . a home which cannot be run without waste, a home which by any detail gets on the nerves of its inhabitants and so impairs the harmony of their existence – something ought to be done about such a home . . . Why not make the perfecting of the home a hobby?”
Due to a variety of circumstances, I’ve been away from home the better part of the past few months. And when I am here, I’m distracted (is the fire headed this way again? will the smoke ever clear?) and feel adrift, in a holding pattern awaiting the next block of time away. I think what I need is a new attitude and I think viewing my home as a hobby will provide that. No doubt I can better use the time I do have in getting the extra little things accomplished – so, toward that goal, I guess I’d better remove myself from the computer!