Memories of Home: A Keepsake You Create

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Limits on socialising within care homes and in some cases a ban on any visitors for many months seems to have taken its toll. The traveler can get the greatest joy of travel even without going to the mountains, by staying at home and watching and going about the field to watch a sailing cloud, or a dog, or a hedge, or a lonely tree.”— Lin Yutang Context-dependent memory was confirmed by an ingenious 1975 experiment in which divers memorised lists of words and were then tested both on land and underwater. On land, their recall was best for the words they had learned on land, whereas underwater they were better at remembering the word lists they learned underwater. Contextual-binding theory can potentially explain a host of other phenomena, such as the effects of brain damage on memory. People with damage to a region in the centre of the brain called the hippocampus are often unable to form new memories. We suspect this is where context-binding actually occurs, especially given that the hippocampus receives inputs from virtually all other brain regions, enabling associations between different sights, smells, physical sensations, and emotions. How does it feel to be without a home / Like a complete unknown / Like a rolling stone?”— Bob Dylan

I’m prancing around at a party in a garden with incredibly neat flowerbeds on a scorching summer’s day, enjoying the attention of my grandmother and of the older children who are wearing puffy pastel dresses. I was around two years old at the time. My recollection of this is fuzzy and indistinct, but nonetheless, it feels authentic and I treasure it as one of my earliest memories. A word of encouragement during a failure is worth more than an hour of praise after success.” ~Author Unknown There are very few words that inspire such emotion as the word “home.” Here’s a list of quotes about home, and most people agree that it’s a wonderful place to be. Jump ahead to these sections: Celebrate the positive.– Celebrateaccomplishments, find the good in challenges… helpyour spouse and childrennotice what’s good and live with hope.Celebrate working together. Celebrate family.Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam, be it ever so humble, there’s no place like home.”— John Howard Payne Schedule family time.– Eat dinner together often, have game night, story night, or movie night; read together, go on family outings, laugh together, worship together, and pray together. The difference between a house and a home is this: a house may fall down, but a home is broken up.”— Elbert Hubbard The concept of home isn’t always pleasant. Here are some sardonic comments about the realities of home – and a few funny nursery rhymes that we thought we would throw in. Don't be afraid to use humor when funeral planning. Sometimes a funny quote is appropriate – even when writing a eulogy.

A memory of a beloved grandparent or long-gone family pet can bring us happiness, whether it is fictional or not. And “don’t sin by letting anger control you.” Don’t let the sun go down while you are still angry, for anger gives a foothold to the devil. Ephesians 4:26–27 Oh give me a home, where the buffalo roam. Where the deer and the antelope play. Where seldom is heard, a discouraging word. And the skies are not cloudy all day.”— Brewster Higley Memories fade with time. If you haven't thought about a memory in years, it won't be as vivid or strong as it used to be. "By not revisiting the memory, you're telling your brain it's not important, and other memories might be laid on top of it," Dr. Budson says. Then make me truly happy by agreeing wholeheartedly with each other, loving one another, and working together with one mind and purpose. Philippians 2:2

Simple but deep

Houses are built to live in and not to look on; therefore let use be preferred before uniformity, except where both may be had.”— Francis Bacon

How do great writers and thinkers describe the concept of home? Here are some thoughtful quotes that make you go, “hmmm.” Around four out of every 10 of us have fabricated our first memory, according to researchers. This is thought to be because our brains do not develop the ability to store autobiographical memories at least until we reach two years old. As a consequence, each memory is associated with different states of context. However, some context states will be similar to each other – perhaps because they share the same location, or mood, or have some other factor in common.Let’s start with learning. It is well established that learning in the brain happens by a process of association. If A and B occur together, they become associated. Contextual-binding theory goes a step further: A and B are associated not just with one other, but also with the context in which they occurred. Everyone needs a somewhere, a place he can go. There comes a time, you see, inevitably there comes a time you have to have a somewhere you can go!”— Fyodor Dostoevsky These mechanisms are simple, but the implications are profound. According to the theory, you’re most likely to remember memories from contexts that are similar to the context you’re in now. Because your mental context is always changing, your mental context will be most similar to recently experienced memories. This explains why it’s harder to remember older events.

Because you may not spontaneously recall cues related to a long-forgotten memory, you'll have to generate some. Dr. Budson recommends that you try these strategies: Whether you’re looking for the perfect quote to place on the cover of a scrapbook or a book full of family stories with questions to ask your family , here are some quotes to consider. Short Quotes About HomeManners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others. If you have that awareness, you have good manners, no matter what fork you use.” ~Emily Post We need help to jog our memory. "When we're younger, an internal cue — just thinking of something — can help retrieve a memory," Dr. Budson says. "But when we're older, we rely more on external cues to retrieve memories, like a sound or an image." Cue the memory There was no need to do any housework at all. After the first four years the dirt doesn’t get any worse.”— Quentin Crisp