{"id":14536,"date":"2022-03-01T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-01T01:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/goodnewsmags.com\/?p=14536"},"modified":"2023-08-03T01:32:23","modified_gmt":"2023-08-03T01:32:23","slug":"letter-from-editor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goodnewsmags.com\/shelbyville\/letter-from-editor\/","title":{"rendered":"Letter from the editor &#8211; Spring Home &amp; Garden"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>THE POTHOS plants on the kitchen window seal are from your grandmother last summer. The welcome mat has little specks of dirt from your brother\u2019s boots from his visit over the weekend. Your favorite Bath &amp; Body Works candle is sitting lit on the coffee table. The receipt for the candle is acting as a bookmark in \u201cWhere The Crawdads Sing\u201d on your nightstand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Not every house is a home. We may move from Nashville to Shelbyville and then to Chattanooga, bringing your home along with you\u2014even when the houses always change. Home is where you feel like yourself. It\u2019s where you don\u2019t have to ask for permission to dig through the fridge when you get home from work. It\u2019s where you don\u2019t have to take your shoes off at the door if that\u2019s not some- thing you do. You get to balance wooden picture frames on nails in the wall\u2014pictures you picked yourself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Or maybe home isn\u2019t about the decorations down the hall or the familiar snacks in the pantry. Maybe home is about the people around us: our family, our friends, and our neighbors. Life blooms like a flower in spring when we make a house a home. Our minds are at peace and our busy lives get to take a moment to breathe. 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