Memories of Home: A Keepsake You Create

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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: How do great writers and thinkers describe the concept of home? Here are some thoughtful quotes that make you go, “hmmm.” 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. A word of encouragement during a failure is worth more than an hour of praise after success.” ~Author Unknown Everybody’s always talking about people breaking into houses, ma’am; but there are more people in the world who want to break out of houses.”— Thornton Wilder

This is not to say that all evidence that relies on memory should be discarded or regarded as unreliable – they often provide the most compelling testimony in criminal cases. But it has led to rules and guidelines about how witnesses and victims should be questioned to ensure their recollections of an event or perpetrator are not contaminated by investigators or prosecutors. A memory of a beloved grandparent or long-gone family pet can bring us happiness, whether it is fictional or not.Details of significant experiences from decades ago may still be available if you can coax them out of your memory. 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: 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. 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.

I personally am inclined to approach housework the way governments treat dissent; ignore it until it revolts.”— Barbara Kingsolver

To reactivate an old memory, you must think about the senses that were engaged as the memory was being recorded. That's because as you experienced something special or important, your perceptions — images, sounds, smells, tastes, touches, thoughts, or feelings — were being stored in one part of the brain (the cortex) and then bound together as a memory by another part of the brain (the hippocampus) and tagged so the frontal lobes could retrieve the pattern of information later. Be kind.– Sometimeswe treat complete strangersbetter than the people with whom we live. Talkand act at homein ways that show your family how much you love and value them. Manners 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 I don’t care if we have our house, or a cliff ledge, or a cardboard box. Home is wherever we all are, together.”— James Patterson

Of the many memories you accumulate every day, only those marked as meaningful are recorded in your brain's long-term files. "We have a system in our brains that tags memories that are important in some way so we'll remember them in the future," explains Dr. Andrew Budson, a neurologist and chief of Cognitive and Behavioral Neurology at VA Boston Healthcare System. 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. 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 4:26–27Many circumstances can make you miss home. Maybe you’ve been away from home for a month or more than ten years. No matter how long it’s been, it’s still possible to miss home. Here are some quotes about that magic word — home. He bought a crooked cat, which caught a crooked mouse, And they all lived together in a little crooked house.”— English Nursery Rhyme

Home is where you can say anything you please because nobody pays any attention to you anyway.”— Joe Moore Loveday advises adding more variety to our lives, which might involve some creative thinking to achieve. If you can’t go out, she suggests finding a completely new activity at home, and then telling someone about it afterwards to help you remember it better. 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

The most important thing a man can know is that, as he approaches his own door, someone on the other side is listening for the sound of his footsteps.”— Clark Gable Leave yourbad mood at the door.– If that’s not possible, use words to talk aboutyour mood rather thanemotionally taking that bad mood out on your family. Memorize a verse like 1 Peter 5:6–7 to repeat when you’re mood tanks… Emotion. "Getting married is an example of a highly emotional event. In that circumstance, a whole host of brain chemicals become active as these memories are being recorded," Dr. Budson says. Say “I’m sorry.” Don’t go to bed angry.–Don’tlet your pridebecome more important thatyour relationships. Sometimes it’s hardest to say “I’m sorry” to our spouses and our children.