There’s simply no other word like “home.”
It’s round and small, like our planet. It has an “om” within it, like the feeling you get when you step over a threshold and drop your burdens. Websites have home pages. There are home teams, home offices, home worlds and homecomings.
People in our state have been forging a unique relationship with home for at least 1,600 years. When the tribes now known as the Basketmaker people put down literal roots here, they needed containers for crops, water, belongings.
They didn’t have to make those baskets beautiful. But they did.
Centuries later, our state is full of people making life better by hand, infusing their homes and all the things they touch with meaning, history and connection. Brewers. Beekeepers. Builders. They create in basements and garages and gardens, and perhaps the most important thing they’re making is community and a wider sense of place.
In Home’s pages and online, we want to honor that endeavor and invite you to join it. We’ll still take you inside homes full of meaning and inspiration. We’ll profile the makers and shakers who are changing or reviving traditions. Each week we’ll offer you a made-from-scratch project. Marni Jameson will continue to cover what’s hot and who’s helpful inside four walls. Our Wild File will serve a slice of the natural world. And of course, we’ll cover the critters who are part of your families.
So come on in. Tell us what you’re working on and how we’re doing. Lead us to the folks making something beautiful, fresh and useful in your neighborhood. Contact us at home@denverpost.com. And please bookmark us online at
Susan Clotfelter: 303-954-1078 or sclotfelter@denverpost.com
