Let's talk about Foundations

Foundations, do you have one? If so, is strong, or barely holding on?

I have an eclectic foundation, its walls are made of various slabs, blocks, tape, and paints, that I gathered here there and everywhere to create my foundation. At first glance it may look patchy, but I have tested her and she can withstand the strongest of even tornado winds. This is to say my life didn't give me much solid ground to stand on, but I walked on anyways.

The concept of our personal foundations, our home foundations are all up for speculation and review.

Growing up in New England basements, were a scary thing, I recall the earliest one from an apartment my parent's rented, it has stone walls, the ones with bulging uneven rocks, the washer and dryer were down there and even though I was young my mother would send me on retrieval missions, and I would run as if something there would grab me, but upstairs I pretended it was the walls of a castle, with secret passageways.

Those are the foundations I was used to.

When I got to New Orleans, my house was on slabs wood lifted a foot or so off the ground, no insulation.

When I got to Alabama the house was placed on concrete slabs.

You see the different ways of doing things here to there, but what I realized was none of them were very sturdy. No one could really tell you a story about why they built a house on concrete slab. To me it screams cheap, careless, and uninspired. Now in New Orleans those builds they carry a story, and that story is worth preserving and upgrading into a livable quality of life.

When I meet people and I inquire of them they aren't quite sure or trusting of why or what I want to know, but I am looking at your foundation and your landscape, to see how you operate and gravitate.

We all have various foundations, they are more viewable that we care to explore, but when the foundations of self and home fail, there will be community no more.