(Video link here.) The story behind this extraordinary video is brief and understated:

On an unseasonably warm November night in Manhattan on our way to get ice cream, we stumbled upon what appeared to be a vintage shop, brightly lit display window and all. As we began to walk in, a man sitting out front warned us that we were welcome to explore, but nothing inside was for sale. Our interests piqued, we began to browse through the collections the man out front had built throughout his life. This is a story of a man and his home.

This ‘story of a man and his home’ completely knocked us out. After we watched it, we just listened to the audio and realized that this man, whose name we don’t know, is an artist-philospher-complete original who has deeply illuminating things to say about the meaning of home, objects, age, life, engagement, joy…

via Neatorama 

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4 replies on “‘this is my home’ will blow you away!”

  4. Touching, really touching…so simple, so alive…there is nothing like a “human bean” that walks the path of the heart – where is this shop and this man?!

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