Literature in Canada 2.0

Home again

Comfort, familiarity, family, peace. These are shared threads of thought on the subject of home. What I found interesting is that a lot of you thought home was not a fixed structure. How ironic that I should write my earlier post about the connection of a fixed structure (house) and feelings (home). Guess I’m the odd one out! Upon rereading my previous post I suppose I could have emphasized more of the feelings associated with the structures that I focused my attention on. I also noticed an absence of pets,…read more

Feb.05

A house is not a home, right?

Posted by jbernoe in Assignment 2.1

Home. How to describe it…? It’s certainly the building. But not just the structure because that’s the house. Let’s think of it as a container. Yes. It is a container of people and objects and memories. But there are lots of these containers, more specifically the home is a container of what is comfortable. Home to me is a literal and figurative space. Literally, I live there, (sometimes) sleep. Figuratively, I am at rest there. It’s not a home if I cannot fall asleep, and not only sleep but feel…read more

Feb.03