Stephen Downes

You can read Bonnie Stewart's report on belonging and place here though I actually preferred this blog post. I share less of a sense of belonging to place - though I now live near where I grew up, Ottawa and eastern Ontario are aswirl with change. Still - this holds: "belonging is relations. It is always relational, tied to relations of connection, relations of power, relations of place." I came back to eastern Ontario because of family, and have no desire to leave, because for me there is nothing like a dirt road cutting through a forest or corn field.