Comfort, laundry, pie

While I'm not sure I'd feel comfortable paying the prices listed for some of the goods at Brook Farm, I have to admit I can get behind the ethos of the shop - at least, as presented by Cintra Wilson. (Though one quibble: I have no problem at all with doilies or "frippery." In fact, I have a doily - one I crocheted - sitting underneath the clock/thermometer/humidity meter that sits on my piano, so it doesn't scratch it)

But I do agree with the idea of making one's one home a comfortable place, a haven, a place where you can (as I often do) say a small prayer of thanks when you lock the front door and know you're "in for the night."

I particularly liked this line: "...comfort, clean laundry and pie are home remedies that are still among the best, oldest, most sensible antidotes to the stresses of a brutal world."

Yes. And I would also add, a pot of soup simmering on the stove, or a cup of hot tea on a cold day, a small quilt or blanket folded on the back of the sofa in case you get cold while reading, and candles on the fireplace mantel, a stack of catalogs with pages dogeared of things you might like to order...all of the little "homely" (in the UK sense) touches of things that might not make it in a decorating-magazine photo shoot, but which make life good and right, having those very comforts close to hand.