“Home,” Maya Angelou wrote in her magnificent meditation on belonging and (not) growing up, “is that youthful region where a child is the only real living inhabitant.”
Indeed, it seems that only for children, with their purity of feeling and their ability to“mediate the ideal and the real,” does the Venn diagram of home and house integrate into one fully overlapping circle. In adulthood, the circles drift further and further apart as we begin to project our conflicted dream-home ideals onto our real houses.In the impossibly wonderful Home (public library), illustrator and children’s book author Carson Ellis presents an imaginative taxonomy of houses and a celebration of the wildly different kinds of people who call them home...
Via Jeff Domansky
Absolutely inspiring creativity and design. Thanks to brilliant curator Maria Popova at Brain Pickings for sharing. A sweet reminder that despite our different walks of life, we have in common a shared longing to belong. Recommended viewing. 10/10