Our Home

The little newspaper you're reading used to be called The Hazelwood Homepage. Now it serves a wider area and is simply called The Homepage. We chose that word Homepage because it feels comfortable and friendly, and because the internet word "homepage" (webpage) sounds hip too. The community of Hazelwood welcomes all...in its better moments, anyway.

I remember being called Homey and Home a few times, and was called Pittsburgh once or twice when living in New York City. I always felt Pittsburgh was my city, not that I owned it but that I was one with it. Home is where the heart is. I remember saying, "The WORLD is my home." We could solve all our problems if we all realized we're one huge family with one even bigger home - The Earth.

How can we make our home welcoming and at the same time secure? I don't know, I guess it's a balance.

I'm glad Pittsburgh is a sanctuary city; there are so many in the world without homes. Some parts of this country are so expensive even people making good money can't afford homes. Were I Head Honcho, every soul would have somewhere to sleep, whenever they wanted, and with whomever they wanted.

If we humans don't work together to deal with the problems we all face, including climate change, we'll ALL be homeless. The winds, the heat, the variations in temperature, the turbulent oceans,...All will work together to remind us that Mother Earth is running things in THIS part of the universe.

Jim McCue
composter and biotech researcher 412-421-6496
http://bioeverything.blogspot.com