http://www.susangregggilmore.com/2009/03/05/the-cline-family-home/ Tue, 07 Sep 2010 17:43:06 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 http://www.susangregggilmore.com/2009/03/05/the-cline-family-home/comment-page-1/#comment-189 Judith Walter Wed, 25 Mar 2009 23:00:17 +0000 http://susangregggilmore.com/?p=147#comment-189 Sometimes, I get philosophical--or a little quirky, I'm not sure which! What is it that makes us need a physical structure to call home? A place to call the “Burton Place” or the “Walter Place”. Maybe the ability to see and touch and smell and hear the hauntings in a place are needed to feel as if we really exist as part of a greater family. As each important house of my youth has been destroyed there is a sense of loss, as if a part of me was somehow gone. Or perhaps the fear that a part of me never really existed. It is said that “home is where the heart is” and that is true. But home is also where we live life. It is somehow harder to remember things of the past without the physical structure there to remind us of the details-the sights, sounds, smells, touches of life. Just my thoughts on the disappearance of homeplaces. http://www.susangregggilmore.com/2009/03/05/the-cline-family-home/comment-page-1/#comment-179 Julie Thu, 05 Mar 2009 23:14:44 +0000 http://susangregggilmore.com/?p=147#comment-179 Susan, You write beautifully even on your blog. I feel like I'm back in Looking for Salvation at the Dairy Queen reading that...it makes me ache for more!