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The Sacred Circle of Home and Hearth

Our homes were round once – a sacred circle.  Imagine. A home with no corners.  A roundhouse.  Folk say the Romans made houses rectangles and introduced the cross-cutting corners of bureaucracy.  The ideal Roman city was a regular grid of streets dividing square building plots or insulae. From here, the Insulae became a public marketplace. The Basilica was located on one side, and on the other, the Council Chamber and Civic Offices. You can’t provide hierarchical order without squares. There’s equality and the ‘chaos’ of equity in circles.  The roundhouse, the meeting place of communities. There were very few large

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