kitties

I was walking along the sidewalk today thinking that January has been a month of aquisitions. What a kind of cold way of looking at it, but it has been. (Not that there have been many, many warm things in it too. )

But a lot, lot, lot of it has been taking things from the outside and putting them inside our shoebox apt. our square footage. Even kitties! We went and conquered and picked them up and put them in. At least they are not plastic or paper, they are warm bodies of course, things to love and to be loved by.

But all the other things- I was too happy in showing him my new purchases! Increasing functionality and having things look nice can be very satisfying, I guess. But going to work on Monday to pay for them drives home the reality of the arghhhh consumption cycle.

We build a home. Like with lego. But it's just a box to put our bodies in.... UnleSS we keep in mind the goal of it being our creative space. A place where worthwhile things come from. And of course where our lives are. It's where are hearts are too. That is how the saying goes.

My hope is for many hearts to come in through that place. For us to give and receive freely. Our walls can be screens, with the air and the light all breathing and bleeding in and out to the streets.

Maybe I just need it to be spring before I feel like that can happen. Maybe this is hibernation.