Up: [[Place]] Created: 2023-10-18 Updated: 2025-04-13 A beautiful moment from the fabulous book, *Alchemy of a Blackbird.* I’d love for my home to have this integrity, this sense about it. It’s what I think of as the feel of the ultimate [[Hestia’s Cottage]]. In the book, surrealist artists Leonora Carrington and Remedios Varo are in Frida Kahlo’s home > [!Orbit] Claire McMillan in *Alchemy of a Blackbird* > “I’ve been in houses that have this same apart quality,” Leonora said quietly. “As if you’ve stepped out of your life and through a portal to another time. I’ve decided it is a quality of the occupant. How clear is their vision? How fully have they inhabited their life? The clearer the vision, the more they have allowed it to spread to every corner of their environment, every article of clothing and adornment. The clearer the vision, the more you will feel, when entering their house, that you have stepped into another time.” (p. 173)