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Tag Archives: homesickness

Quote for Today: Milan Kundera
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June 19, 2015 by katmcdaniel

The Greek word for “return” is nostos. Algos means “suffering.” So nostalgia is the suffering caused by an unappeased yearning …
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Category: Quote for Today | Tags: frustration, home, homesickness, humanity, ignorance, language, memory, Milan Kundera, nostalgia, past, return, suffering, yearning
Quote for Today: Patrick Jennings
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April 27, 2015 by katmcdaniel

Through the window, I saw the beautiful world outside: the sky, the sun, the cacti, the rocks, and the dirt. …
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Category: Quote for Today | Tags: anthropomorphism, barriers, desert, fragrance, homesickness, humanity, invisible, Patrick Jennings, scent, snake, vision, We Can't All Be Rattlesnakes, window, world
Carrying Home: The Work of Do-ho Suh
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March 26, 2015 by katmcdaniel

Our experience of home deepens and changes with time. Does moving away from our roots help us understand them better? Do-ho …
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Category: Photoblogs, Videos | Tags: displacement, Do-ho Suh, fabric, globalization, home, homesickness, identity, installation, memory, migration, sculpture, space, transformation
Quote for Today: Herman Hesse
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March 26, 2015 by katmcdaniel

A longing to wander tears my heart when I hear trees rustling in the wind at evening. If one listens …
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Category: Quote for Today | Tags: Hermann Hesse, home, homesickness, life, longing, memory, mother, nature, new, silence, trees, wandering, wanderlust, wind
Quote for Today: L. Frank Baum
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March 2, 2014 by katmcdaniel

No matter how dreary and gray our homes are, we people of flesh and blood would rather live there than …
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Category: Quote for Today | Tags: belonging, connectedness, dreary, gray, home, homesickness, humanity, L. Frank Baum, life, people, satisfaction, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
Quote for Today: Terry Pratchett
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July 12, 2013 by katmcdaniel

Veil, you see, if I vas to say something portentous like “zer dark eyes of zer mind” back home in …
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Category: Quote for Today | Tags: castle, context, Discworld, homesickness, humor, Otto, psychotropic, scenery, Terry Pratchett, The Truth, vampire

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