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Weekend America: Answering the Question about the Meaning of Home

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Real Estate Agent with Keller Williams Greater Seattle

 

One of the most interesting programs on Radio today is Weekend America (American Public Media & National Public Radio). The program’s topic today is about the “meaning of home” and it’s and incredibly interesting and timely program. Coincidentally, yesterday I wrote a brief post about how the current financial challenges in America may change our perspectives about the true value of our homes. Are they merely an “investment” or are they more than that? Seems like a simple question but, as you’ll find, the concept of home is amazingly complex. Just click on the picture below and you will be linked to this program:

 

A couple of my favorite sections of the program are highlighted below. The first is “Your Stories of Home” which includes short essays by many different people around the U.S. Click on it to see more:

As a real estate agent, “The Tragedy of Stuff” strikes a particularly deep cord. In the course of doing my job, I have seen how the human tendency to accumulate things holds a deep psychological grip on our lives. Click on the picture to listen to this story.

I hope you enjoy the variety of stories told in this episode of Weekend America.

 

Deb Hurt
Realty Pro Albuquerque - Albuquerque, NM
ABR, e-Pro,Green, TRC

Thanks for this. I was a social worker and did family counseling and parenting work as well as child abuse prevention and suicide prevention work before I "retired" to real estate. These stories are all too familiar. The importance of "home" as as a safe space for our "self" may soon be forced back into a much higher place in our consciousness than it has been in the recent past. The reasons for the change are not all that great, but the shift itself, I think, is a very good thing.

I think it is also good for us, especially for us as professionals to be able to look at "home" from different perspectives. Our ability to hear and understand someone's story is very powerful in determining our ability to work with them or refer them to someone else who can if we are not able to.

As part of my personal giving back I donate 1% of all my commissions to my local public radio station to help make sure that programs like this continue to be available to the widest possible audience.  Since I work almost exclusively with first time buyers, each contribution tend so be small but over time, they add up.

Nov 30, 2008 08:16 AM