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The Smell of Home

The Smell of Home ORGANIZATION & ENVIRONMENT / June 2004 Martin / THE SMELL OF HOME 10.1177/1086026604264911ARTICLE Art and the Natural Environment JULIA MARTIN University of the Western Cape here is a sense in which the longing for home, like other longings, is T always insatiable. The certain place of origin, the end of the journey, the heart of things, the hearth, the essence of self. ...We recognise this yearning for a home that is eternal, this longing for something that is always out of reach. Because of this familiar ache and the pain it brings, a Buddhist monk becomes what is called a home-leaver, one who is walking on a path that leads away from the certaintyof a first or final Word, away from the comfort of an absolute doctrine, away from clinging to persons, property and place. Walking this path, they say, is liberation. And yet, if I lived under the plastics on the windy Cape Flats, I’d probably think a dry, safe home was happiness. In the heartless world we call modernity, all people need homes. And perhaps, as progressive ecologists tell us, knowing where home is may be the simple, powerful knowledge we need for healing our community. They http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Organization & Environment SAGE

The Smell of Home

Martin, Julia
Organization & Environment , Volume 17 (2): 10 – Jun 1, 2004
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ORGANIZATION & ENVIRONMENT / June 2004 Martin / THE SMELL OF HOME 10.1177/1086026604264911ARTICLE Art and the Natural Environment JULIA MARTIN University of the Western Cape here is a sense in which the longing for home, like other longings, is T always insatiable. The certain place of origin, the end of the journey, the heart of things, the hearth, the essence of self. ...We recognise this yearning for a home that is eternal, this longing for something that is always out of reach. Because of this familiar ache and the pain it brings, a Buddhist monk becomes what is called a home-leaver, one who is walking on a path that leads away from the certaintyof a first or final Word, away from the comfort of an absolute doctrine, away from clinging to persons, property and place. Walking this path, they say, is liberation. And yet, if I lived under the plastics on the windy Cape Flats, I’d probably think a dry, safe home was happiness. In the heartless world we call modernity, all people need homes. And perhaps, as progressive ecologists tell us, knowing where home is may be the simple, powerful knowledge we need for healing our community. They

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