THE CAVE

" The need for cave-like spaces
may come from the experience
of being tightly swaddled just
after birth. Once wrapped in a
close-fitting shelter with only a
small window on the outside
world, we may grow up to view
any place that is closed, but that
has a small opening to look
through, like a cave, as comforting.
One's own house feels like a cave
in relation to the neighborhood
around it. The bedroom, study,
nook or attic within the house or
the pergola, playhouse or porch
outside of it, can be percieved as
caves of different sorts."