Restoring Home, Sweet Home. "There’s no place like Home! "

Restoring Home, Sweet Home 

Dr Dr Abe V Rotor

" ‘Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam,

Be it ever so humble, there’s no place like home."

     Home Sweet Home

By John Howard Payne

Music by Henry Rowley Bishop (1786-1855)

(Arranged for the violin and piano by Henry Farmer)

‘Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam,

Be it ever so humble, there’s no place like home;

A charm from the sky seems to hallow us there,

Which seek through the world, is ne’er met with elsewhere.

Home, Home, sweet, sweet Home!

An exile from home, splendor dazzles in vain;

O, give me my lowly thatched cottage again!

The birds singingly gaily, that came to my call –

Give me them – and the peace of mind, dearer than all.

Home, Home sweet, sweet Home.

There’s no place like Home! 

       There’s no place like Home! 

"Home is a garden of roses, a grass lawn, a pergola of orchids.

Home is a collection of plants, a living gene bank.

Home is home for biodiversity, a living museum."

"Home is the singing of birds and fiddling of crickets.
 Home is the sweet smell of flowers, falling leaves, 

swaying branches in the wind.
 Home is the sweet smell of the earth after the first rain in May.
 Home is a singing cicada in the tree."

"Home is laughter and music, prose and poetry.
Home is forgiving, rejoicing, celebrating.
Home is Angelus and rosary hour. "

"Home is where the heart is." — Pliny the Elder

What constitute a happy home was discussed on the school-on-air program - Paaralang Bayan sa Himpapawid. It was one of the liveliest lessons in the last five years of the program (Phase 2). Here are some definitions which came from our radio audience here and abroad.

Reproduction of a painting brought home from the United States by my dad before WWII restored and enshrined in our ancestral home.

Dad graduated Bachelor in Commercial Science at De Paul University in Chicago during the Great Depression, and returned as bona fide balikbayan never to leave San Vicente his hometown where he raised us - 3 children - after the early death of our mother.  

 
1. Home is a roof for everyone - residents and guests.
2. Home is a wall with large windows that let the sun and the breeze in.
3. Home is where fish in the aquarium sparkle in the morning’s sun.
4. Home is a baby smiling, of children playing.

5. Home is husband and wife loving and loyal to each other.

6. Home is a “place for everything and everything in its place.”
7. Home is dad and mom waiting for the children from school.
8. Home is a workshop for hobbies, inventions and discoveries.
9. Home is a dog lying on the doormat and waiting for its master.
10. Home is a litter of puppies and kittens.

11. Home is a rooster crowing, nature’s alarm clock.
12. Home is a house lizard’s crispy announcement of a guest coming.
13. Home is a frog croaking in the rain.
14. Home is a safari of wildlife – from insects to migratory birds.
15. Home is a warm embrace of a cat. (avr photo)

16. Home is a cup of coffee, a sip of wine, a newspaper.
17. Home is a warm bath, a cold shower, a bath tub.
18. Home is National Geographic, Time Magazine, Discovery channel.
19. Home is ripe tomato, succulent radish, dangling string beans.
20. Home is a brooding mother hen in her nest.

21. Home is fresh eggs everyday.
22. Home is the singing of birds and fiddling of crickets.
23. Home is the sweet smell of flowers, falling leaves, 

       swaying branches in the wind.
24. Home is the sweet smell of the earth after the first rain in May.
25. Home is a singing cicada in the tree.

26. Home is a swarming of gamugamo in the evening.
27. Home is a sala too small for so many friends.
28. Home is a cabinet of books, a study table, a computer.
29. Home is Beethoven, Mozart, Abelardo, Santiago.
30. Home is Charlotte Church, Josh Groban, Sharon Cuneta.

31. Home is Juan Luna, Amorsolo. Picasso, Van Gogh.
32. Home is potpourri of appetizing recipes, of the proverbial grandmother apple pie.

33. Home is pinakbet, lechon, karekare, suman, bibingka.
34. Home is a garden of roses, a grass lawn, a pergola of orchids.
35. Home is a collection of plants, a living gene bank.

36. Home is home for biodiversity, a living museum.
37. Home is doing repairs that virtually has no end.
38. Home is disposing old newspapers, bottles, metal scraps, and used clothes.
39. Home is a midnight candle before an exam.
40. Home is a shoulder, a pillow, to cry on.

41. Home is Noche Buena.
42. Home is fireworks on New Year.
43. Home is general cleaning on weekends.
44. Home is a soft bed that soothes tired nerves and muscles.
45. Home is a fire place, a hearth, which takes the cold out of the body and spirit.

46. Home is a Prodigal Son returning, The Good Samaritan.
47. Home is a round table where thanksgiving prayer is said.
48. Home is laughter and music, prose and poetry.
49. Home is forgiving, rejoicing, celebrating.
50. Home is Angelus and rosary hour. ~