Poems about homes: your Friday night poetry reading on video
Here’s this week’s reading: poems about homes. I’ve lived in at least 25 homes in my 80 years, so I appreciate finally being settled.
Continue readingHere’s this week’s reading: poems about homes. I’ve lived in at least 25 homes in my 80 years, so I appreciate finally being settled.
Continue readingIn New Zealand as elsewhere, far too many are homeless and forced to be sleeping rough on the streets or in parks. I am immensely privileged to have had at least 25 homes. Even my most primitive shelter had a bed, an electric kettle, and running water.
Continue reading“Have you ever paused to contemplate the idea of home?” asks Robyn Haynes in her blog, Big Dreams for a Tiny Garden. On a trip to Outback Queensland, she felt a deep connection with the land, and her sense of home expanded from house, garden and family to something much broader—Australia. (I’ve distorted her thought flow by summarising it — […]
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