Happy & Healthy
RENSKES HATE-LOVE RELATIONSHIP WITH THE HOME QUOTE
Look, I know of course that in better interior circles it really can't (anymore), such a home quote on the wall. Everyone and everything has them and often they are the same quotes too. But I need to get something off my chest. Sometimes I am unexpectedly touched by such a quote.
Let's be clear that I'm not talking about the letters ‘HOME’, which you sometimes see sitting somewhere in the windowsill. I don't think that's something you need to be reminded of. Like: ‘Guys, in case we all forget: this here, this is our HOME!’ Oh dear, yes, gosh, I was already searching for it.
Read here about the things that really need to leave your house when you start living together.
But there are enough texts that sometimes suddenly resonate with me. Especially at moments when I feel a bit wobbly or unstable. Recently, while I was in a somewhat unstable state due to a work situation, I visited a friend, and they had the text ‘Don’t Forget To Be Awesome’ hanging in the bathroom. I looked at the text, then at a rather unstable face (in the mirror) and thought: YES. This is just incredibly true. I may be acting unstable and everything, but I just need to put my shoulders to the wheel and be f*ing awesome!!
Awesome.
I have the same with ‘Smile, there’s wine’. I've come across it several times now. And there are also some great variations, such as ‘You Cook, I Will Drink Wine’. I mean, what a party of recognition. It's so purifying that a glass of wine is also a solution for many other people. Disclaimer: of course, for obvious reasons, you shouldn't drink two or three bottles every day, but anyway, I'm getting off track.
Read here about the Guilty Pleasures of Lieke van Lexmond.
As a cherry on top, I was even a bit moved recently by, you won't believe it, Winnie the Pooh and Piglet. ‘How do you spell love? You don’t spell it, you feel it.’ And then with a very sweet drawing alongside. Really, you could sweep me up. I should mention that I had a hangover and then things hit harder. You know it, I know it. But still.
Anyway: sometimes you can love something while you just know that it's a bit wrong. But hey, we actually knew that a long time ago.
