On this page, throughout September, we will be adding resources (music, poetry and articles) on the theme of Home. If you have resources to share, email them to Chandrika at usr.secretary@gmail.com
One of my most favorite songs that evokes that sense of home, and the longing we feel, is the classic Simon and Garfunkel “Homeward Bound”. Click here to listen:
Come Home, Our Sons by Margaret Hasse
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/145616/come-home-our-sons
Going Home Again by David Brooks
https://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/21/opinion/brooks-going-home-again.html
THIS HOUSE
by Kenneth L. Patton,
Minister The Unitarian Society of Ridgewood, 1964-1986
This house is for the ingathering of nature and human nature.
It is a house of friendships, a haven in trouble, an open room for the encouragement of our struggle.
It is a house of freedom, guarding the dignity and worth of every person.
It offers a platform for the free voice, for declaring, both in times of security and danger, the full and undivided conflict of opinion.
It is a house of truth-seeking, where scientists can encourage devotion to their quest, where mystics can abide in a community of searchers.
It is a house of art, adorning its celebrations with melodies and handiworks.
It is a house of prophesy, outrunning times past and times present in visions of growth and progress.
This house is a cradle for our dreams, the workshop of our common endeavor.
– – –
