Thinking About What Home is

To get people to think about what home means to them, I often come up with a question: What room do you most fondly remember from childhood? Most of the people said the bedroom. The self-entertainment or the state of being alone sum up the appeal for the bedroom. The kitchen comes in second. For most of the people, cooking with their mothers or grandmothers became the collective memory for a family. Finally, there are the basement and the garage, where have always ignited the creative spark in adults and children when doing the crafts.
It occurs to me that the bedroom, the kitchen, and the basement reflect the three basic areas of home: the private sanctuary, the place of community, and the place where thing get made. As long as the places we live are able to accommodate these three different human activities, it can be called home.