Celebrating Home and Hearth (in Sickness and in Health)

This article was first published on Real Estate Therapy and has long been one of our standout favorites. We’re delighted to bring it back on the Kindred SF Homes blog so a new audience can enjoy it.

Robert Frost said, “Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.” Yet home means different things for different people. There’s no one way it has to be. Yet, as Sherry Richert Belul reminds us, if your home doesn’t feel like “home,” you may need to “practice like your hair is on fire” in order to find your way. And, although it may not be exactly what you imagined it would be, simply having a home is a reason to celebrate every day!

🎯 Episode Highlights:

Happiness takes practice.
Real estate is a noble practice of serving others.
San Francisco is one of the most tenant-friendly places in the U.S. and here’s a glimpse of some of its intricacies.
Home means different things to different people.
Features you love vs features you promote when selling.
Three Talking Heads songs about home: Naive Melody (This Must Be the Place), Burning Down the House and Once in a Lifetime
Ways to make your home “your home.”
The Zen idea of “practice like your hair is on fire.”
We can take “home” with us wherever we go.
No mud, no lotus!
Home needs to work for you in health and in sickness.
Home is a metaphor for our very selves.
“Love After Love” is by Derek Walcott, not David Whyte
Recommended: “Say It Now” by Sherry Richert Belul