To be tethered is to have roots. To be tethered is to be home.

The photo accompanying this episode is of Girl with Balloon by the artist Bansky. This artwork first appeared as graffiti in London and later was sold at auction for $1.4 million, after which it immediately began to shred through the frame and then stopped due to a malfunction. The partly shredded work sold last week at a new auction for $25.4 million.

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Today we recognize the 574 tribes of Native Americans in the U.S. today and the millions who were here when we took their homes.

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The photo for this episode was taken by me in August of 1998, on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota, where the Wounded Knee Massacre occurred on December 29, 1890.

Spending time in nature is essential for our wellbeing yet even in a city park or our own backyard, we can be bombarded by noise. For me, the worst noise is a leafblower. Where do YOU find serenity in nature?

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Chewing has become exhausting. I wish I had understood that decades ago when I made soup for my father.

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BTW, the soup photo is not my own. No credit that I can find but I pulled it from Pillsbury.com

Thomas Rhett has a new song where he says, “It sure is good to be country again.” I’m struggling to understand what that means. What does it mean to be a place?

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The boots in the photo are just some of mine that I currently wear, even while living in Tulsa, OK.

We must be careful with our words and actions, even when we are frustrated, angry, fearful, or sad. Because children are watching. They are watching all of us.

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The accompanying photo for this post is of the garage door I saw in Edmond, OK on August 28, 2021. Much gratitude to that homeowner and the artist.

Living – really living – is a perpetual act of suicide.

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After a wedding, you are never really the same. Once we marry, a part of us is gone forever. Even as we embrace our new joined lives with joy and excitement, we need to honor what we leave behind.

This episode is also available as a blog post at JanPepplerHOME.com and at Finding Home on substack.com.

When it’s time for assisted living, it’s not the home or their belongings that our elders miss. It’s the freedom and their youth. They don’t care so much if they are forgetting things, they have all the memories they need. Our parents are often more willing to move on than we know.

This episode is also available as a blog post on JanPepplerHOME and at Finding Home on substack.com.

The photo associated with this episode was the home of my great aunt for over 70 years. She left it in her early 90's and lived 100 and a half years.

Today is the birthday of Beatrix Potter, who reminds us that imagination can be the glue that binds us to home.