Look Homeward
“It reminds me of home”, a note from a client read. As I thought about that for a moment, I recalled other instances when a purchaser or shopper made a similar remark. “It feels like home.” “It looks like home.” That got me thinking. What is it about a particular landscape that has, for some people, a feeling of familiarity, peacefulness, happiness? Sometimes it looks like the part of the world where you grew up. Maybe it brings to mind a particular memory. Sometimes it looks like a place where you would go to think through a problem or even to let your thoughts wander without aim. What is that place for you? Do you drive to the beach? Pack up and head for the mountains? Lie on a blanket in a grassy meadow? Stick your feet in a cool, stony creek?
Skies are always part of the picture for me. Something about looking up, watching the graceful dance of the clouds, seeing the bigger world, gives me a moment to pause, breathe, think of things a bit differently. Maybe its vastness makes me sense something greater than my small life. But it is the way the sky meets the land that moves me on the deepest level. It is something beautiful, powerful, and even kind of mysterious reaching down and touching the places we live and sweat, laugh and cry, sow and harvest. Sky meets earth. God meets man.
- In the words of C.S. Lewis, “The sweetest thing in all my life has been the longing — to reach the Mountain, to find the place where all the beauty came from — my country, the place where I ought to have been born. Do you think it all meant nothing, all the longing? The longing for home? For indeed it now feels not like going, but like going back.”
This is where it began. Welcome to the Look Homeward Collection.
Your friend,
-Karen
