Many times I’ve lamented over what this house seems to ask of me in time and attention and sheer hard work. The garden always hell bent on getting away on me and the house itself seems too often on the verge of chaos and ruin and me of despair *
But that very thing is part of the appeal of making home to me - wooing it back from the brink, taking plain old and ordinary and making it sing, creating something fresh and alive even in the most well worn and worn out of places - from nothing sometimes, from the tiniest of threads, the slightest of hopes *
In her book Placemaker @christiepurifoy says this ". . . choosing to care for a place often makes no financial sense at all. Instead it will cost you. . . . If keeping a home and a place well makes sense, it is only in the way love makes sense. When we love someone, we serve them, we care for them, and, on our better days, we do not count the cost." *
Loving this book. Love from my home 🏡 to yours xx #placemaker
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