National Good Neighbor Day - Thoughts about Home and good Neighbors
A home is where the heart is, where you have family, where you are loved and where dreams grow. And where you have a great neighborhood. Being a good neighbor is an art - having good neighbors is a gift - which makes life richer. You know it when it feels right. In that moment you are at home. For almost everyone, "home" is the center of their world and a place of order that contrasts with the chaos elsewhere. When asked to draw a picture of "where you live", children and adolescents worldwide invariably center their drawings around the home, making it the anchor for everything else. "Home" is the place where you feel in control and properly oriented in space and time; it is a predictable and secure place. In the words of poet Robert Frost, "Home is the place that, when you have to go there, they have to take you in." In short, "home" is the primary connection between you and the rest of the world. If home is where the heart is, then by...