vol. 3, num. 18 :: 2004.11.05 — 2004.11.18
It?s where we spent our formative years, where we put down roots as young adults, where we claim our identity in connection with place. Reflections on towns and cities as ?home.?
*cino community members respond to questions about their hometowns.
A local celebration provides an opportunity to reflect on love of place.
The merging of two cultures yields a lesson in experiencing community.
Even as big boxes multiply, "neighborhood values" are becoming an important part of the national conversation.
A review of Chaim Potok?s The Chosen.
A young couple mourns and celebrates the passing of time as they visit the small town of Hospers, Iowa.
A North American woman finds home on a vast and colorful continent that inspires both incredible joy and difficult questions.
On the complex search for an earthly home.
Wendell Berry, the notable advocate of loving our land, explores how corporate greed is eroding hometown values.
Presbyterian minister Eric O. Jacobsen examines a new movement to reclaim neighborhood values from a Christian perspective. NOTE: Links directly to a PDF download.
On the stages that occur between the beginning and the present.
Is laughter even appropriate in a world with so much suffering?
Even in a country you know by heart
its hard to go the same way twice
the life of the going changes.
The chances change and make a new way.
Any tree or stone or bird
can be the bud of a new direction. The
natural correction is to make intent
of accident. To get back before dark
is the art of going.
Wendell Berry
“Traveling at Home” from Traveling at Home
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