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Home for the Holidays

Dianne Poston Owens

Dianne Poston Owens

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Gathering: Homespun Essays from Beech Tree Lane

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A Southern journalist, Dianne Poston Owens has learned a thing of two about people and community—that people want to know their lives matter, their pets won’t rat them out, and that they are not alone. As an observer and recorder of people, places and things, she understands that every day is a new day, and each day is played out in tandem and in gathering. 'Gathering: Homespun Essays from Beech Tree Lane' is a collection of short essays intended to be read for inspiration and encouragement. Owens poses questions and offers photographs that allow readers the opportunity to reflect and pause before forging ahead. Written with charming wit, Southern twang and a deepness that is drawn out by nature, Owens explores what we see, say, and choose, and how we connect to the people we interact with in the “communities” in which we gather.

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Dianne Poston Owens is a former newspaper reporter, columnist and editor, serving rural communities in South Carolina for more than 30 years. Though she wandered from her roots, she now lives in the same neck of the woods that her family has lived and died on for more than 250 years ... Along with two goats, at least four chickens, two cats and whatever else lives in the woods!

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Home for the Holidays

"I'll be home for Christmas," (if only in my dreams ...) "... there's no place like home for the holidays ..." Sometimes we just need to go home. For some, though, home is an elusive place, ever changing. For others it is stable and secure, filled with warmth and love. Still, for others it's a place of bad memories and a thing to be avoided. In my essay in "Gathering, Homespun Essays from Beech Tree Lane," titled "A Place to Be," I explore home and what it can be. I hope you read it this holiday season and find yourself "at home" with yourself, wherever you are! Here's a piece of that essay for your enjoyment ... it is best served with a cup of warm cocoa ...Blessings galore!

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Gathering: Homespun Essays from Beech Tree Lane

Home is the office where you laugh at the same jokes with the same people day after day.

Home is where you are busy doing what you need to do to get to where you want to be.

Home comes from those few trusted souls along with you for the journey.

We all have a vested interest in home. Home is a keystroke, a tab away.

Home rises from tile and concrete, veneer and wood.

Home is crafted from linoleum and sheetrock, with glitter and paste.

They will know they are at home with you by the way they want to smile when you come around.

We all know when we are home.

What is “home” to you?

How do you know you are home?

Who is most at home with you?

Gathering: Homespun Essays from Beech Tree Lane

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