Home: my ancestral land; a place I was born; a place I live; a place I feel I belong; a place I return to; a place I yearn for.
The idea of home is an experience as much as a physical place.
I can be alone or at home in the company of another, in how I act, or what I do.
From time to time something is said that unexpectedly shifts my understanding of a person I know well. My moment of insight depends on a passing comment that drifts into the conversation before seamlessly moving to the next subject without note of its significance. I check my wish to ask for clarification so that I can examine the implications of what was said more carefully. Perhaps I misheard, perhaps I am mistaken. From time to time the secrets of our life spontaneously emerge.
We have resources at our disposal: personal qualities, knowledge, skills and effort. When we give something of ourselves or something we have made, and we do so outside the spheres of financial, political, or personal exchange, we risk those things we share are taken without reward or thanks. We may judge ourselves not to be in a personal or economic position to take the risk, and so we do not share. We choose to gain. We take: personally, politically, economically. Sharing at its heart is fearless.
William Shakespeare
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Think This Today is the creation of Mike de Sousa, an artist, writer, and composer.