Everybody’s always talking about people breaking into houses, ma’am; but there are more people in the world who want to break out of houses.”— Thornton Wilder

This similarity between contexts is important when it comes to retrieving memories. Your brain’s memory search process is rather like a Google search, in that you’re more likely to find what you’re looking for if your search terms closely match the source content. During memory search, your current mental context is your set of search terms. In any given situation, your brain is rapidly rifling through your memories for ones that most closely resemble your current state of context. Simple but deep The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.” ~Henry David Thoreau Say “I’m sorry.” Don’t go to bed angry.–Don’tlet your pridebecome more important thatyour relationships. Sometimes it’s hardest to say “I’m sorry” to our spouses and our children. Use your manners.Say “please and thank you.” Teach table manners. Teach and show respect.Nice matters even at home!

Simple but deep

Contextual-binding theory can potentially explain a host of other phenomena, such as the effects of brain damage on memory. People with damage to a region in the centre of the brain called the hippocampus are often unable to form new memories. We suspect this is where context-binding actually occurs, especially given that the hippocampus receives inputs from virtually all other brain regions, enabling associations between different sights, smells, physical sensations, and emotions. The reason may tap into something far deeper in the human condition – we crave a cohesive narrative of our own existence, and will even invent stories to give us a more complete picture. Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others. If you have that awareness, you have good manners, no matter what fork you use.” ~Emily Post I don’t care if we have our house, or a cliff ledge, or a cardboard box. Home is wherever we all are, together.”— James Patterson The most important thing a man can know is that, as he approaches his own door, someone on the other side is listening for the sound of his footsteps.”— Clark Gable

We know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.”— II Corinthians 5:1

Context in the brain

Be kind.– Sometimeswe treat complete strangersbetter than the people with whom we live. Talkand act at homein ways that show your family how much you love and value them.

The traveler can get the greatest joy of travel even without going to the mountains, by staying at home and watching and going about the field to watch a sailing cloud, or a dog, or a hedge, or a lonely tree.”— Lin Yutang At the end of your life, you will never regret not having passed one more test, not winning one more verdict, or not closing one more deal. You will regret time not spent with a husband, a friend, a child, a parent.” ~Barbara Bush When we do get the chance to chat, we also have fewer stories to tell. As holidays get cancelled, weddings are postponed, concerts and sporting events go ahead without live audiences, we have less to talk about. And as for tales of woe at work, they’re mainly about the frustrations of technology letting us down.I personally am inclined to approach housework the way governments treat dissent; ignore it until it revolts.”— Barbara Kingsolver Celebrate the positive.– Celebrateaccomplishments, find the good in challenges… helpyour spouse and childrennotice what’s good and live with hope.Celebrate working together. Celebrate family.

The ache for home lives in all of us. The safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.”— Maya AngelouBecause you may not spontaneously recall cues related to a long-forgotten memory, you'll have to generate some. Dr. Budson recommends that you try these strategies: Does the word “home” make you think of family and love? Here are some quotes that give positive and negative views of the home. We think they pair perfectly with songs about family. There was no need to do any housework at all. After the first four years the dirt doesn’t get any worse.”— Quentin Crisp Details of significant experiences from decades ago may still be available if you can coax them out of your memory.