 is the name of the home where Brenda Laurel and Rob Tow live - and where their three children - Hilary Laurel
Hulteen, Suzanne Elise Tow, and Brooke Laurel Hulteen - grew up together, in the Santa Cruz mountains above the Silicon Valley region of the San Francisco bay in California.
When these five people came to live together in the
house nestled high in the trees, clouds, rain and snow, it was clear that
there were entirely too many last names to put on
the sign out on the road... so everyone thought of names
for the house, and a long list was compiled over several
weeks on the whiteboard in the kitchen, and finally a
vote was held to select one. "Locus Voci" was the
winner... it means "Place of Voices". It was very appropriate for the boisterous home where three girls grew up. Now, we hear more of the voices of owl, crow, water in the creek, windchimes, and rain.
Once the name was
selected, brightly colored signs were painted to put out
on the one lane road that winds through the forest to the
house... and the following week a curious thing happened:
the weekly trash was not picked up... when
the hauling company was called, they said "Oh, yeah, a
new family moved in there... that Italian "Vochy"
family... they don't have a contract with
us!" |