Home things, part two.

[mrissa]

Okay, people: give me a single word for "home" or related to "home." A list of single words is fine, but more like "rest" than "place to rest," you see what I mean?

I am screening comments here in case someone wants to get sappy and ruin their toughbeing persona, or else wants to get conflicted and doesn't want to be public about it.

Comments

[diatryma.livejournal.com]

I'm curious about everyone else's answers now. I expect 'hearth' showed up a lot, but beyond that, I don't know how other people think.
You ask very interesting questions.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

I'm glad you think so! Nobody who answered (so far, I suppose) seemed particularly conflicted -- there was not a lot of "work" or "mess." I will eventually write a hard SF piece called "Eleven Names for Home," so I already had a page of brainstorming. Some stuff will come out in that. I don't feel comfortable unscreening once I said I'd screen, but a lot of people are going with answers similar to "refuge" and "comfort."

[diatryma.livejournal.com]

You picked 'home'. Home itself has the pleasant connotation-- making a house a home and all that. I didn't mean to ask for unscreening, just the sort of information you've given.