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Peter Xaviar Kelly View Statement

"As the 10th child in a line of 12 children HOME has been an integral and motivating factor in my developement as a person and as a chef". "Home is what grounds me and what inspires me."

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Dolores Hayden View Statement

If I were sitting in my office at Yale, this would be a conversation about the history of cities, suburbs, and the American landscape. Say it is 1870: we might consider the new designs for apartments versus the familiar shape of the row house. A steam ferryboat might carry us across a river to another dwelling, the suburban house. Later a streetcar might pass through our exchange and vanish. Eventually a metropolitan highway system connects home to work. The thoughts of a woman driving home alone are the subject of my most recent poem, "In the Middle Lane, Leaving New Haven." She considers the stories that roads can tell about the landscapes they cross and the livelihoods embedded within them. (To be continued)

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Tammy Burstein View Statement

home is where the heart is. an old and time worn adage. in a far less transient time (1st century AD) home was where all we loved lived and had lived; the source of lineage, the place of root, the core of our existence. as the communal body, made up of ever increasing numbers of feelers that stretched out into the wider world, moved farther from the home place, the reach of the heart extended through our moving bodies. and like a turtle or a snail or a nomad, taking home on the road, we carryied the dust of sacred ground wherever our feet took us. home is the ground made sacred wherever we move by the imprint of our feet as we roam both inner and outer landscapes. the body is our mobile home, the breath our fuel, and the beat our motivation to move house with every step, from the heart, as an artist of life, and a lover of being alive. home is where spirit moves us and these bodies are the moving men and women of our inspiration. gabrielle roth's 5rhythms® movement meditation practice is a map to finding home in our feet and our hips, our heads and our hands; a guide to reuniting our separate parts and creating a haven for being wholly home no matter how far we roam from our native soil

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Rachel Basch View Statement

People of a certain faith tradition refer to being called home as a metaphor for death. We return to the place we sprang from, and everything in between birth and death then can be viewed as a series of radiant trips out from the center. We veer away from the heart of the matter hundreds of times each day. And if we’re fortunate, we are called home, called back to center, called to conscious awareness, before we’ve spun too far out and beyond.