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...

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

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.

"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 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?

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

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 your favorite thing about the place you call home?