Feels Like Home: Fond Remembrances in Words and Pictures - Tapa dura

"Give any child of five a piece of blank paper. Provide a new box of pointy crayons. Leave the kid along for about three minutes. And that young artist - however scarily computer literate - will yet sketch for you The House. Our House. Ninjas might be floating over it, black holes might now flog its little patch of sky, but these make the place feel more a Home, not less...

There is something quantum about the one roof, those few tables and chair, the single bed on earth you judge as yours. Every human life accommodates one great, typifying love. And, for each of us, there can only be a single formative homeplace.

'Home" is less a concept, more a sensation. If it feels like home, it probably is." (Allan Gurganus, from the Introduction)