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How to Translate the Feeling of Home
There’s a subtle, but essential, distinction between “house” and “home.” One is a structure in which people live. The other is a place that nourishes the spirit. The dwelling where you can kick back, relax, and be your most honest self. Home is both a feeling and a place—and a topic of fascination, right up there with other four-letter words like love and life. Many non-fiction books explore the concept of home, from Bill Bryson’s At Home to Judith Flanders’s The Making of Home. Novels, film, and TV speak to everything that can happen within a home (see: Little Fires Everywhere). And countless songs have captured the emotional nuances of…