I love thise links, they really helped me get a broader picture.

My understanding of home may be a little unique. I moved quite a lot as a kid growing up in Australia. Both my parents are second generation immigrants from Europea and I have lived in many places and been to many different primary and high schools. This gave me a feeling of home being - not a place, but a feeling I had with my family. I was at home when my immediate family came together for dinner or a birthday (mind you this didn't happen too often either). As I grew into adulthood, home became less family-centric.

I guess the idea of home is an exclusive and inclusive one. It excludes most things, instead privedging a particualr aspect of experience; be it a group of people, space, an idea or event. I have some difficulty with 'home' under this definition as it seems to be quite a conservative and limited expression of ownership.

However, I like to fall back on the idea that was put forward to me by a friend of mine, who lived between Australia and Spain. He was home in neither country, considered a foriegner in both. His duel citizenship had left him stateless. I asked him where he called home once and he responded in his usual romantic enthusiasm
'I am home on the earth. This whole planet in my home.'

I always liked that idea because it includes everyone and has a very open kind of ownership.