WEEK 19 - 24/11/11 - HOMESICKNESS

"I suspected, however, that I wasn't homesick for anything I would find at home when I returned. The longing was for what I wouldn't find: the past and all the people and places that were lost to me.” ― Alice Steinbach, Without Reservations: The Travels of an Independent Woman

- LORENA - The ritual of every year, hanging the same adornments in the same Christmas tree... every time it all seemed unchanged. But as years came and went, so did the childhood innocence and people attached to the celebration, irreplaceable things that will always be missed.

- DAPHNE - we can only long for something that is no longer in our sight. the crumbled paper is being held together by silver longings. the neckpiece is to be worn tightly around the neck so one can not see it when looking down.

WEEK 18 - 17/11/11 - HOMESICKNESS

“It is necessary to find one's own way in New York. New York City is not hospitable. She is very big and she has no heart. She is not charming. She is not sympathetic. She is rushed and noisy and unkempt, a hard, ambitious, irresolute place, not very lively, and never gay. When she glitters she is very, very bright, and when she does not glitter she is dirty. New York does nothing for those of us who are inclined to love her except implant in our hearts a homesickness that baffles us until we go away from her, and then we realize why we are restless. At home or away, we are homesick for New York not because New York used to be better and not because she used to be worse but because the city holds us and we don't know why.” - Maeve Brennan

- LORENA - caos and barriers, but once you conquer them and find your own way, what once was a limitation will now become a bond.

- DAPHNE - the harsh appearance makes us hold back a little, but it is that glimmer that draws us to what lies within. and once we crawl through the 'fish pod' we can never get out.

WEEK 17 - 10/11/11 - HOMESICKNESS

"The worst feeling in the world is the homesickness that comes over a man occasionally when he is at home.” ― Edgar Watson Howe

- LORENA - a suffocating feeling, having in front of you your real home, but carrying in your back the weight of the nostalgia from a previous home, or the pieces of an idealized one that will never exist.

- DAPHNE - square meters don't matter, it is the walls crawling on to you.

WEEK 16 - 3/11/11 - ENTHUSIASM

"What a man accomplishes in a day depends upon the way in which he approaches his tasks. When we accept tough jobs as a challenge to our ability and wade into them with joy and enthusiasm, miracles can happen. When we do our work with a dynamic, conquering spirit, we get things done.” ― Arland Gilbert

-    LORENA    - Just making it happen, no mater what.

-    DAPHNE    - whichever way we choose, we end up in a whirlwind sooner or later. it is the way we look at things that make the difference.