Vol. II, No. 2: 1. Inner Space: Home Is Where the Hearth Is

As daylight lessens and nights lengthen, November fans the flame. After the first snowfall, the woodstove or hearth is kindled, the vigilant tender feeds the fire day by day. ...

November is the true start of winter here in the North Country of Vermont. And with the fire comes a mood that can't be matched by any other time of year. Here, then, some images and thoughts about the hearth, home, and the fire within. ...
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Home is Where the Hearth Is

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You are a king by your own fireside,
as much as any monarch in his throne.
Miguel de Cervantes

I live in my house as I live inside my skin: I know more beautiful,
more ample, more sturdy and more picturesque skins: but it
would seem to me unnatural to exchange them for mine.
Primo Levi
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Home is a name, a word, it is a strong
one; stronger than magician ever spoke,
or spirit ever answered to, in the
strongest conjuration.
Charles Dickens
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Light the first light of evening, as in a room
In which we rest and, for small reason, think
The World imagined is the ultimate good.
Wallace Stevens

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The world, an entity out of everything,
was created by neither gods nor men,
but was, is and will be eternally
living fire ...
Heraclitus
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   And all shall be well and
   All manner of thing shall be well
   When the tongues of flame are in-folded
   Into the crowned knot of fire
   And the fire and the rose are one.
                                                  T.S. Eliot

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