The document is an introduction to a series on understanding the home that explores its history, psychology, political economy, and future. It begins by sharing various quotes that reflect on themes of home as a place of love, acceptance, family, children, return and centrality to society. The introduction then lists the six parts of the series and provides contact information for further resources.

1. Understanding Your Home
History, Psychology, Political Economy, Future
Part 1
The Dream of Home
David Week
dew@assai.com.au
© 2014

2. Our house,
is a very, very, very fine house
With two cats in the yard,
life used to be so hard
Now everything is easy
'cause of you
Here he lies where he long'd to be;
Home is the sailor, home from the sea,
And the hunter home from the hill
cultural dreams

3. Where we love is home -­‐
home that our feet may
leave, but not our hearts.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
One of the oldest human
needs is having someone to
wonder where you are when
you don't come home at
night.
Margaret Mead
Home is any four walls that
enclose the right person.
Helen Rowland
Where thou art, that is home.
Emily Dickinson
Home is where the heart is.
Pliny the Elder
love

4. Home is the place where,
when you have to go there,
they have to take you in.
Robert Frost
Home is where you feel at
home and are treated well.
Dalai Lama
One never reaches home, but
wherever friendly paths
intersect the whole world
looks like home for a time.
Hermann Hesse
The ache for home lives in all
of us, the safe place where
we can go as we are and not
be questioned.
Maya Angelou
acceptance

5. Middle age is when you're
sitting at home on a Saturday
night and the telephone rings
and you hope it isn't for you.
Ogden Nash
If I were asked to name the
chief benefit of the house, I
should say: the house
shelters day-­‐dreaming, the
house protects the dreamer,
the house allows one to
dream in peace.
Gaston Bachelard
Home is, I suppose just a
child's idea. A house at night,
and a lamp in the house. A
place to feel safe.
V S Naipaul
He is happiest, be he king or
peasant, who finds peace in
his home.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I long, as does every human
being, to be at home
wherever I find myself.
Maya Angelou
peace

6. When it comes to developing
character strength… no
institution can or ever will
compare with, or effectively
substitute for, the home's
potential for positive
influence.
Stephen Covey
America's future will be
determined by the home and
the school. The child
becomes largely what he is
taught; hence we must watch
what we teach, and how we
live.
Jane Addams
When I come home, my
daughter will run to the door
and give me a big hug, and
everything that's happened
that day just melts away.
Hugh Jackman
But now, being a parent, I go
home and see my son and I
forget about any mistake I
ever made or the reason I'm
upset. I get home and my son
is smiling or he comes
running to me. It has just
made me grow as an
individual and grow as a man.
LeBron James
children

7. And when the day arrives I'll
become the sky and I'll
become the sea and the sea
will come to kiss me for I am
going home. Nothing can stop
me now.
Trent Reznor
It may be that the satisfaction
I need depends on my going
away, so that when I've gone
and come back, I'll find it at
home.
Rumi
It seems sensible to me that
we should look to the
medical profession, that over
the centuries has helped us
to live longer and healthier
lives, to help us die peacefully
among our loved ones in our
own home without a long
stay in God's waiting room.
Terry Pratchett
return

8. The strength of a nation
derives from the integrity
of the home.
Confucius
Home is the most popular,
and will be the most
enduring of all earthly
establishments.
Channing Pollock
Run a home like you
would a small business
and treat it with the
same seriousness.
Anthea Turner
Any woman who
understands the problems
of running a home will be
nearer to understanding
the problems of running a
country.
Margaret Thatcher
To be happy at home is the
ultimate result of all
ambition, the end to which
every enterprise and labor
tends, and of which every
desire prompts the
prosecution.
Samuel Johnson
centrality

9. cultural function

10. cultural function

11. cultural function

12. cultural function

13. cultural function

14. cultural function

15. gender

16. gender

17. housework

18. housework

19. housework

20. where now?

21. 1: The Dream of Home
2: A History of the Home
3: Psychology of the Home
4: Political Economy of the
Home
5: The Future of the Home
6: Changing Your Home
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