Where Is Home

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"Happiness doesn't lie in conspicuous consumption and the relentless amassing of useless crap. Happiness lies in the person sitting beside you and your ability to talk to them. Happiness is clearheaded human interaction and empathy. Happiness is home. And home is not a house--home is a mythological conceit. It is a state of mind. A place of communion and unconditional love."

Dennis Lehane, in The Sun (magazine), "Sunbeams," p. 48, October, 2021

Among several sublime and subprime sacred meanings and secular purposes for HOME, in October Sunbeams of BlueSky enlightenment and GreenEarth empowerment, Dennis Lehane's HOME refining peaceful stable minds defining sacred communion for unconditional compassionate love, not intentionally unkind I could not sync with mythological or ecological or theological CONCEIT But, also could not find a replacement until recalling indigenously wise nature-spirited refacement of EarthMother's EcoRoom, a regenerate matriarchal WOMB Making peace for Here Now sacred place, until we disregard dismantle desecrate and degenerate, in AnthroSupremacist ways down toward MotherEarth's TOMB GLOOM Extracted cancelled pathological HOME of DOOM Which maybe does say something about mythologically epic CONCEIT.

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