Tea, Earl Grey, hot : how work could repair our broken home in the modern world

When we think of home—the memories and feelings that we associated with it—we think of comfort, familiarity, consolation, intimacy, love and warmth. You can feel at home when you see your friends, colleagues and family, when you eat a certain food, or when you engage in a certain ritual or habit. This is not to say that the sensation of home is disconnected from a place and a time. On the contrary, it is very deeply rooted in the material world, in our surroundings and physical experience, but it surely isn’t just one single place. Home reaches from the nooks and crannies of your childhood bedroom to the sighs of relief when after a long journey you see that familiar landscape again. Home can be understood as a locality. Activities, relations and experiences that belong to a wide variety of places.”

Tea, Earl Grey, hot : how work could repair our broken home in the modern world

When we think of home—the memories and feelings that we associated with it—we think of comfort, familiarity, consolation, intimacy, love and warmth. You can feel at home when you see your friends, colleagues and family, when you eat a certain food, or when you engage in a certain ritual or habit. This is not to say that the sensation of home is disconnected from a place and a time. On the contrary, it is very deeply rooted in the material world, in our surroundings and physical experience, but it surely isn’t just one single place. Home reaches from the nooks and crannies of your childhood bedroom to the sighs of relief when after a long journey you see that familiar landscape again. Home can be understood as a locality. Activities, relations and experiences that belong to a wide variety of places.”