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lauren liess

photography by helen norman

feels like

home

relaxed interiors

for a meaningful life

abrams, new york

To my parents, for always

feeling like home to me.

right

Us in our garden

by Hector M. Sanchez

for Southern Living

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feels like

home

sense of home. I would just breathe in home and

let it hug me, feeling utterly and completely swept

up in the moment. Home and the love I had for my

parents were deeply intertwined.

After hugging and kissing my parents (and

then pets!) Id run up to my bedroomwhich

always had a perfectly made bed and no mess

yetand greet my stuffed animals and touch all

of my things. Id look around at my room, feeling

like it was this little part of me Id been away

from. Id start unloading my books and getting

everything just right. My mom often left a fresh

arrangement of flowers from the garden on my

nightstand in the warmer months, and my dads

fridge was always stocked with my favorite

foodsincluding the sausage we could only get

in Chicago. They didnt have to say a word to me,

because these little displays of love throughout

the house let me know Id been missed. I have

forgotten so much of my childhood, but I

remember these moments and the feelings so

clearly, as if theyve been preserved in time.

These are the feelings I associate with home.

Today, many of us spend so much time, effort,

and money on our homesfor what? Why do we

care so much about our homes? Why do we do

all that we do for home? Its a physical thing, a

place, and most of us understand that material

as a kid growing up

in a divorced family,

the feeling of coming home to my parents after

being separated from them for long periods of

time was almost palpable. I lived in Virginia

right outside of Washington, DC, with my

mom and grandparents most of the time, and

spent summers, long weekends, and holidays

with my dad in a suburb outside of Chicago. I

always felt a little torn between my two lives and

homesloving both of my parents equally but

always missing one of them. Each home meant

something different to meI think partly due to

the nature of off time versus school time, and

also partly because of who my parents are. Life

at my dads house was unbridled, carefree, and

adventurous, and consisted of lots of running

through fields and time on the water, whereas

life at my moms was full of routine, time with

friends, special plans to look forward to, crafting,

gardening, and walks in the woods. No matter

how different my two lives were, the feeling

of home I had when being reunited with the

parent and house Id been away from was the

same. It felt like safety, comfort, and an intense

joy or a gratitude of sorts where I saw and felt

my home through rose-colored glasses hitting

me all at once. I absorbed and felt so much just

walking through the doorthe smell, the objects,

the light, but most of all, an all-encompassing

introduction

Our souls are not hungry for fame, comfort, wealth, or power. Our souls are hungry for

meaning, for the sense that we have figured out how to live so that our lives matter.

HAROLD KUSHNER

opposite

I hung paintings

by my kids in our

dining room to show

them I love them

and to make them

feel special. An

old zinc table is a

makeshift seeding

and potting station.

feels like

home

naturally, theyre influencing us to a greater

degree. Home today needs to fulfill so many

functions: it needs to be a place we can wake

up in, work in, educate our kids in, and cook a

gazillion pounds of food a day in. Were inundated

each day with difficult and often painful news,

many of us experiencing emotions weve never

felt before. We need a place that helps us exhale

and let it all go, lets us be totally honest and

unfiltered, and is an extension of ourselves.

Homenow more than everis about what

works for us and makes us feel and be our best.

As we navigate a whole host of new challenges

and tragedies that have truly put life in

perspective, many of us are questioning all that

we think, feel, and do on the deepest of levels.

So many people are slowing down and seeking

more meaningful lives, making changes. Many

of us are turning to the comfort of our own

homes, looking to find solace in that feeling of

home. There is an awakening happening like

Ive never seen in my lifetime. I know well

probably go back to some sort of normal when

all of this is over, but I dont want to forget the

lessons weve learned or go back to functioning

on autopilot without questioning.

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