{"id":348,"date":"2014-08-22T22:21:00","date_gmt":"2014-08-22T22:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/?p=348"},"modified":"2014-08-23T15:17:08","modified_gmt":"2014-08-23T15:17:08","slug":"what-does-home-look-like","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/?p=348","title":{"rendered":"What Does Home Look Like?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Ille-sur-Tet\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Coming across this door on the edge of a medival French town was a big mystery.\u00a0 The scratched-out names, overwritten by the “tags” of newcomers, makes the whole plank of wood resemble a graffiti board.\u00a0\u00a0 It’s not the kind of thing I’m used to seeing in Ille sur T\u00eat, a fabulous medieval town where priests still deliver mass in black robes, where there is a hospice dating from 1220, old Francisican convents and Carmelite monasteries.<\/p>\n

It’s the sharp edge of tradition, pushing uncomfortably at all the givens. \u00a0Who is using a vibrant roiling black marker – like bits of barbed wire – on which to hang the change of address notice?\u00a0 Of the current residents, we can guess: Mateo Hinojosa, maybe sisters Fernanda Blanco and Maria Teresa Blanco? \u00a0Two different hands are doing the writing. \u00a0Who have they replaced?\u00a0 The brief stay of the previous family – families – remains in the traces.<\/p>\n

I’d heard stories from the ’40s and ’50s of Spaniards sitting on their suitcases in the Perpignan train station waiting to be chosen for work by farm overseers. \u00a0Does Europe’s new insecurity resemble the old insecurity? \u00a0\u00a0Who lives “chez nous”?\u00a0 Maybe the postman can figure it out – maybe he knows the faces.\u00a0 It begs the question: What does home look like?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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