Prompts —

THIS MUST BE THE PLACE
on finding the heart’s home 

December signals the time when we begin to welcome the closing of another year and all that this means. A time when many of us travel home for the holidays, or escape the cities we live in for a well-deserved break to welcome in the New Year. Which is why it feels like the perfect time to contemplate what home means to each of us. And where your heart feels most at home. 

So, this month, we invite you to take yourself on a visual vacation. To pore through the books, films, and magazines that you cherish most. To revisit old photo albums and postcards, travel diaries and ticket stubs. And, in the wise words of Talking Heads, to keep your ‘feet on the ground’ but your ‘head in the sky’. For, although home may be where we want to be. I guess, in many respects, we are already there.

PROMPTS

1.     Visit a place that makes you happy

What do you see? 

 

2.     Pick up a favourite book

Take note of where it is set

 

3.     [Meditation]

Visualise the heart’s home

 

4.     What do you notice when you rest there for a while?

Physically: 

Emotionally: 

 

5.     Pick up a pen and paper

Write a letter to someone who lives in another city

 

6.     Take yourself out to the cinema

Watch a foreign film

 

7.     Print some photographs from your travels

Collate them into an album

 

8.     Write down what comes to you, stream of consciousness style

—-*home