“The living can’t quit living because the world has turned terrible
and people they love and need are killed. They can’t because they don’t.
The light that shines in darkness and never goes out calls them on into life.”
— wendell berry, hannah coulter
We have been at home for seven weeks, and lately I’ve been wondering : how are we going to think about our homes after spending so much time in them? I am a confessed homebody, and honestly, if you take out the stresses of a pandemic and being self-employed among other things, getting to spend all this time at home is kinda my favorite. We lament after a more “simple” life, and in a way, that’s what many of us have been forced into. (Granted, with the addition of being expected to work / homeschool / feed hungry mouths, but still.) So many of the distractions that would normally vie for our time and pull us out and away from family have been stripped away for a season. We have a choice every day how we will decide to see it, use it. Yes, there are infinite uncertainties right now and that is scary. There is loss of income, loss of life, loss of life as we know it and a thousand other little griefs. But we have the opportunity, every day, to get up and keep on living. To see this time as a gift. Days with our children who grow and change so fast. Slow evenings and meals around the table every night. Walking the dogs and taking advantage of the mild spring weather. “The light that shines in the darkness and never goes out call us out into life.”
All of this thinking about home reminded me of this favorite session I never shared — just hanging out at home on a sunny Saturday morning. I’m really looking forward to the day I can make pictures like this with you again!