The Prompts:
1.) Grab your current read. Let the book fall open to a random page and share two “teaser” sentences from that page, somewhere between lines 7 and 12.
The book:
This is actually line 14–but it starts a paragraph…
“To help maintain a sense of order at a time of dizzying change, the Victorians developed a zeal for categorizing everything from ferns and butterflies to social groups: males and females, adults and children, servants and masters, strangers and friends. When they applied this passion for sorting and separating to the plan of the home, they turned the house into what Heinly calls a honeycomb.”
I began this book as a way to think of our home in a more organized fashion. I know, that’s impossible! We are not an organized family. But we can change right?!
I am honestly not reading every line of this verbose book. But I am enjoying some of the principles that it encompasses. It’s not all about organization like the above quote might suggest. It is also about the feeling and flavor of a room. Color, furnishings, and even personal memories and how they influence us and reflect who we are to those who visit. It’s thought provoking.
As a related note; the kids said today their friends prefer to play at our house. When I asked why, they said it’s because it’s more fun and we have lots to do. It reminds me of one more reason a welcoming home is so critical: so we all feel safe and loved in these walls.
that is really cool and sounds like a good book. I need to check it out more.
I think this is so vital. All the kids play here too. I used to complain to my husband because it does make the house dirtier! And things break ALL the time, but really, who cares about cleaning when the kids are happier : ). It makes my day now!