In our homes we also work and study. Who knows if now, because of the pandemic that forces us into reclusion, we are doing that more than never. Even in the simpler of the homes, the space where we place our books, notebooks, laptop, papers, build the place where we can call an office or a studio.

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It’s in this “room” - either separated from others or in the same space, as in a bedroom or at the corner of a dining table- that a personal space is created where we confront the world. Where children and teenagers study and where the ones that work on their computers complete their obligations.

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Chesterton used to say that the office is not a closed space, but a window to the infinite. We can think that it is, in our home, a trampoline, a bridge, an open window to the world. A place that allows us to observe and, at the same time, perceive the horizon line. The human mind, in connection with reality nourishes itself with everything that it searches for, observes and knows.

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Let’s look at the table, where now the books, the laptop, the pencils, the notebooks and  the planners, emptier than usual, lay. But, for this table to have a real utility, it must contain three essential “objects”: a telescope to see the infinitely big, a microscope, to see the infinitely small and a map to see the immensity of the Earth where we live. Nothing escapes the thirst of human curiosity, that hopes to be able to know the cosmos, but even more to know itself, that seems to go even further than any star.

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Work and study reveals to us that there is more in the Sky and on the Earth than in our thoughts, and that the great challenge is to recognize ourselves through what we do. Since the role of this place that we are describing is to be a personal place to know, interact with reality and to be useful to the world, we need to cultivate the poet’s soul that, looking at the universe, doesn’t wish to reduce it to his own thoughts, but to love it, welcoming in him what the Infinite offers.