[online] What is home? (Joan Didion, Angelou, Wendell Berry)

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What is home?
A Premise Conversation

Texts: We will email you the reading after sign up.

• "On Going Home" by Joan Didion
• "Letter to My Daughter" by Maya Angelou (essay on home)
• "A Native Hill" by Wendell Berry

We will email you the reading after sign up.
⏱️ Preparation: Approx. 2 hours

Session Description:
Home seems simple to define—until we actually try to do it. Is it the place we grew up, the place we choose, or something we carry inside us? Through reflections on returning home, creating home, and belonging to place, we’ll explore the gap between the homes we remember, the homes we have, and the homes we dream of. What makes a house into a home? How do we create belonging when we can’t return to where we came from?

In this session we’ll ask:

• What does “home” mean when the place we grew up is gone, or we’ve moved far away?
• How do we build a sense of home in new places, cultures, or seasons of life?
• Can the sense of belonging we desire be found in people, memories, or practices rather than geography?
• What happens when our dream of home clashes with the reality of the place we inhabit?

Join us in a welcoming, facilitated conversation space that invites people from all walks of life to think in public together—with open minds, deep curiosity, and mutual respect. You don’t need academic credentials or deep prior reading—just an interest in what home means for you.
We hope you’ll leave the session with fresh perspectives on belonging, place, identity—and maybe a little closer to what “home” means in your own life.