The Common Good  Home, Sweet Home  (Mandolin image by
greggsphoto/ (Mandolin image by greggsphoto/  I'm on the flight
home now.   It's a curious idea, really. Home.  As children we
might make a game of it. You know, like when you play tag with
your friends and you create a safe place where you can't be
tagged. Even when we play games it's important to have a place
to be safe...a "home."  When we played this game as children,
however, we had another rule. You could not stay at home
forever. You had to venture out. Sometimes the rule would be
that you could stay home for 30 seconds and no more.   It's
safe. You can't be tagged there.  But you can't stay forever,
either.  The game just doen't work that way.  You must venture
out and risk being tagged.  "You're it!"  This is what the
game's about.   "What are we playing?"  "The Medley!"  "Which
medley? The E Medley or the Sea Medley?"  "The Medley!" "Oh. The
Medley in D?"  "Or that one. Sure."  ...and the mandolin rings
the first chords of "I'll Tell Me Ma" and w