I went and looked up Lochearn and Baltimore @cogdog, as my schoolgirl geography couldn’t quite place it with certainty 
. So we have two threads so far in our braiding about the influences of where we grew up. About common spaces, imagination, and how the environment can profoundly shape our future experiences. I wonder if anyone else has any stories? They may not always be happy. Sometimes our home environment is a place that we needed to get away from.
I’m thinking Alan about your home and yard common spaces, as well as the trees, and the difference in the city in Phoenix. It could represent the tensions involved in collaboration - what am I losing and what am I gaining by sharing my home’s swing set with all the kids in the neighbourhood (neighborhood 
)? What is the physical and social sharing culture that helps make that collaboration happen?
This could relate to the interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary questions that @connieb is now raising in preparation for the panel on Futures of Interdisciplinary OER. The power structures, ‘tribes’, ways of thinking and philosophies of particular disciplines or ‘homes’ and familiar ‘backyards’ will most likely not be enough to to solve our pressing societal challenges, but at what cost will the collaboration come? How much do we welcome and respect other disciplines as sharing equals? It’s so helpful to think of simple everyday and natural analogies.