These pieces explore some abstract concepts which guide our lives and decisions: emotional judgments with strong effects.

What do we mean by "home"? What is "home" to us and what sacrifices are we willing to make to preserve its safety? Why do we sometimes wish to protect it from change? We want "home" to be permanent and immutable, to serve us like a memory which, though located in time, is not prey to its seasons.

Nothing added, nothing subtracted.

Home can become the rule by which we measure other aspects of our lives. We give our fealty to it. Loyalty, fidelity, constancy are other abstract concepts which are housed under the roof of "home": it stands for all of them. They are also signals which we look for in our relations with other people.

Home safe, home free.