“a little broken, a little new.
we are the impact and the glue.
capable more than we know
to call this fixer upper home.”

~ Sleeping at Last

Daron LarsonSeptember 22, 2019Sleeping At Last, music, music video, home, family, time, impermanence, commitment, agingComment

Home Sweet Home

"Right as rain, soft as snow,
It grows and grows and grows,
Our home sweet home."

~ Sleeping at Last

Notice Flow, Practice in LifeDaron LarsonJuly 15, 2017home, family, courage, paying attention, memoryComment

What Makes a Place Feel Like Home?

"Home is a place where you feel accepted, whether you are Jacob leaving Egypt to be buried in his true home, or a young teen who desires to feel accepted by family and society. I urge everyone to continue to strive for good character and to accept people who may look or act differently. In this way we will all experience home; we will all receive blessings."

~ Eleanor Teweles

Daron LarsonJanuary 29, 2017ritual, growing up, Judaism, favoritism, blessing, jealousy, Torah, bat mitzvah, character, home, homelessness, joyComment

When I Feel At Home

"When I feel at home (or when someone else truly makes me feel at home), I feel comfortable, supported, safe, and relaxed, like I don’t need anything. At those times, my past ceases to be a neon marquee of regrets, and my future is no longer an unending to-do list, bullet-pointed by unrealistic expectations. Feeling at home is the feeling that I can just be myself."

~ Ethan Nichtern

Daron LarsonMay 28, 2016Ethan Nichtern, home, feelings, past, future, waking upComment

Cooperating & Homemaking

Homemaking is creating an environment in which learning is possible.

~ Mary Catherine Bateson

Daron LarsonOctober 11, 2015On Being, Mary Catherine Bateson, anthropology, childhood, home, evolution, collaboration, competition, nature, trustComment

Happiness is Home

“Happiness doesn’t lie in conspicuous consumption and the relentless amassing of useless crap..."

~ Dennis Lehane

Daron LarsonJuly 12, 2015Dennis Lehane, home, happiness, empathy, connectionComment

Every Step I Take is My Home

But do not ask me where I am going,
As I travel in this limitless world,
Where every step I take is my home.

~ Dogen Zenji

Hear Out, Practice in LifeDaron LarsonJuly 10, 2015senses, present, Dogen, home, uncertainty, poetry, Zen Comment

Heat, Steep, Sit, Drink

The simple act of honouring one’s need for time and space, between the competing parts of our day, is age old.

How Does It Feel to Be You?

"The only way we’ll ever know what it’s like to be you is if you work your best at being you as often as you can, and keep reminding yourself: That’s where home is."

~ Bill Murray

Daron LarsonMarch 16, 2015Bill Murray, home, life, self, paying attention, wisdomComment

Already Arrived

To live is to be
uncertain.
Certainty comes
at the end.

~ Erica Jong

Clarity, Equanimity, Practice in LifeDaron LarsonMarch 9, 2015poetry, Erica Jong, certainty, uncertainty, home, rest, Adirondack MountainsComment

Shelter

May this house shelter your life.
When you come home here,
May all the weight of the world
Fall from your shoulders.

~ John O'Donohue

Daron LarsonJanuary 30, 2015John O'Donohue, poetry, home, blessing, safety, lifeComment

We Forget

"We are not at home in the world because we imagine it is as we have become, full of nothing but yearning and forgetting and hoping for something so raw we can't describe it."

~ Simon Van Booy

Daron LarsonDecember 22, 2014Simon Van Booy, home, yearning, belonging, Lorenzo Mattotti, stories, childhood, growing up, aging, uncertainty, confusionComment

Where the Other Losers Live

Wherever you’re from sucks,
and wherever you grew up sucks

~ Erin Belieu

Daron LarsonDecember 10, 2014Erin Belieu, poetry, pretense, writing, home, belongingComment

Exhilarating, Luxurious, and Urgent

"In an age of acceleration, nothing can be more exhilarating than going slow. And in an age of distraction, nothing is so luxurious as paying attention. And in an age of constant movement, nothing is so urgent as sitting still."

~ Pico Iyer

Notice Rest, Practice in Stillness, Practice in LifeDaron LarsonDecember 8, 2014Pico Iyer, stillness, home, travel, paying attention, pause, mindfulness, TEDComment

Sweet and Tart

"Bad things are going to happen."

EquanimityDaron LarsonOctober 31, 2014Ellen Bass, poetry, uncertainty, chaos, suffering, life, mundane, challenge, complexity, relationships, growing up, discomfort, confusion, home, struggle, griefComment

Liberation through Intimacy

Transcendence isn't an escape plan, but an engagement strategy: liberation through intimacy. Transcending the self and the world begins with deeply accepting the self and the world. It grows naturally out of countless direct experiences of life as it is being lived and an intimate familiarity with how its composition constantly fluctuates.

Departure Lounge

"Truth clears away / So many souvenirs. The shelves come clean." ~ Clive James

Equanimity, See In, Feel In, GoneDaron LarsonSeptember 22, 2014poetry, Clive James, George Szirtes, death, illness, gone, life, home, waiting, uncertainty, health careComment

To Find Its Way Home

"I know this world is far from perfect." ~ Andrea Gibson

Daron LarsonSeptember 9, 2014Andrea Gibson, home, poetry, persistence, growing upComment

The Path Home

"The search may begin with a restless feeling, as if one were being watched. One turns in all directions and sees nothing. Yet one senses that there is a source for this deep restlessness; and the path that leads there is not a path to a strange place, but the path home." ~ Peter Matthiessen

Daron LarsonJuly 31, 2014Peter Matthiessen, meditation, mindfulness, Zen, documentary, Rebecca Dreyfus, paying attention, waking up, homeComment

Sinking into the Mystery

"What happens when, just for a moment, we stay with our pain, our fear, our doubt, our discomfort, our grief, our broken heart, even our numbness, without trying to change it, or fix it, or numb ourselves to it, or get rid of it in any way? What happens when, even when we feel like leaving, abandoning the moment for the promise of a future salvation, we stay, sitting with the raw, unfiltered, boundlessly alive life-energy that is simply trying to express right now?" ~ Jeff Foster

Daron LarsonJuly 26, 2014Jeff Foster, equanimity, pain, fear, discomfort, grief, mystery, home, emptiness, impermanenceComment

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