Madison Riley’s well written post about the topophilia that she feels for her mother’s kitchen ended with a question that asked if people know whether or not their perceptions and attitudes have shaped their outlook on life. She uses an example of her boyfriend enjoying her mother’s kitchen and homemade food, but he doesn’t the nostalgia that she has for it. I thought this example very closely related to my mother. In the last discussion I wrote about my childhood home in Grandville, Michigan. I explained my feelings of topophilia towards the beautiful old farmhouse, but I had never realized how my experiences growing up in that home were different than what my mother went through to give me that home. My mother never liked the Blue House.
