Joy Harjo; Perhaps the World Ends Here

Harjo writes of the value of family-centered life in a era where tv dinners are beginning to replace rigid family rituals. If the value of family can be compared to a religious observance, the kitchen table, where a family receives physical and spiritual nourishment, can be considered the central and most holy of places; an alter. The architect Frank Llyod Wright designed his house to centered around the hearth/fire place to enable families to see their meeting point as the center of their lives, their home.