Gaia Community: Questions and Reflections tagged 'home'

What do you love most about where you live?

2007-05-16T07:00:00Z

Where do you live? What's your home like? What about your neighborhood, or your city, or your region at large? How involved are you in your community? And what do you appreciate about it? Take a minute and think a bit about the place you call home, and then let us know...

Where do you spend the most time?

2007-06-12T07:00:00Z

Is it at work? At home? Which room? Which chair? Be as general or specific as you like, but think a little about how your surroundings affect your life, and where you find yourself drawn. Then let us know...

Where did you grow up?

2007-07-15T07:00:00Z

Where was your childhood home? What city? What was your neighborhood like? Your house? What do you remember most?

When was the last time you visited the place you grew up?

2007-08-02T07:00:00Z

Some of you still live near your first home; others have traveled widely. Whatever the case might be with you, think for a minute about the last time you visited your childhood home, and then share a bit what it was like.

What's your relationship to the Earth?

2007-04-22T07:00:00Z

"That's here. That's home. That's us. On it, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever lived, lived out their lives. The aggregate of all our joys and sufferings, thousands of confident religions, ideologies and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilizations, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every hopeful child, every mother and father, every inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every superstar, every supreme leader, every saint and sinner in the history of our species, lived there on a mote of dust, suspended in a sunbeam."

-- Carl Sagan.

It's Earth Day. Here's a larger picture of our little planet--the only home we know. What do you feel when you see this? What does it bring up for you?

If you were exiled from your homeland, where would you move?

2007-12-09T08:00:00Z

If you had to leave the country in which you're currently living (or the one you consider home), where would you choose to live instead? Why?

What does a good neighborhood mean to you?

2008-01-19T08:00:00Z

If you had to decribe a good neighborhood, what would you say? Have you ever lived in one? Do you now?

What do you remember of your childhood home?

2008-02-21T08:00:00Z

What's the first thing that comes to mind when you think about the house (or houses) in which you grew up? Is it a room? A particular rug? The way the third stair creaked on the way up to your room? What do remember about the first house you knew?

What's the best thing about where you live?

2008-08-16T07:00:00Z

What's your favorite thing about the place you call home?

For how long have you been living in your current home?

2008-09-01T07:00:00Z

For how long have you lived in the place you are now? How long did it take for it to feel like home (or does it)? What does it take for a place to feel like it's yours, or as though you belong there?