Mountain range with peaks covered in snow, lush green rolling hills in the foreground, under a clear light blue sky.

Inspirations

Hearth and Home

Hospitality

“Blest be that spot where cheerful guests retire

To pause from toil, and trim their evening fire;

Blest that abode, where want and pain repair,

And every stranger finds a ready chair:

Blest be those feasts with simple plenty crown’d,

Where all the ruddy family around

Laugh at the jest pity or pranks, that never fail,

Or sigh with pity at some mournful tale,

Or press the bashful stranger to his food,

And learn the luxery of doing good.

— Oliver Goldsmith

A yellow house with white windows in a field of white and yellow flowers, with mountain cliffs and low clouds in the background.
A dirt forest trail with tall trees and sunlight filtering through the branches in the background.

Home

The dearest spot of earth to me

Is home, sweet home!

The fairy land I long to see

Is home, sweet home!

There how charmed the sense of hearing!

There where love is so endearing!

All the world is not so cheering

As home, sweet home!

I’ve taught my heart the way to prize

My home, sweet home!

I’ve learned to look with lover’s eyes

On home, sweet home!

There, where vows are truly plighted!

There, where hearts are so united!

All the world besides I’ve slighted

For home, sweet home.

-W. T. Wrighton

A campfire burning with orange and yellow flames in the foreground, with a colorful sunset sky and clouds in shades of blue, pink, and yellow in the background.

Odell Shepherd

“One can enjoy a wood fire worthily only when he warms his thoughts by it as well as his hands and feet.”

Benjamin Franklin

A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.”