Cafe@Home - November 2021 Playlist

The word belonging has two meanings. First, to belong is to be a member of something. Membership is the experience of being at home. The opposite of belonging is to feel isolated and always an outsider. To belong is to know that you’re among friends.

The second meaning of belonging has to do with owning. Something belongs to you. We own items and take care of them because we don’t want to have to replace them. When we belong to a community, we feel ownership of that community.  We want to ensure that community is thriving. What we consider ours, we build and nurture.

• Short Term 12 (free to stream) The journey of a young woman offering belonging to others but struggling to find it for herself.
• Antonia’s Line (free to stream) A celebration of radical belonging, courage and expanding what family means.
• Minding the Gap- a documentary filmed in Rockford, IL (stream on Hulu) A celebration of the belonging of friendship and a study of what happens when a circle of young men struggle to move from childhood to adulthood but don’t quite belong to either.
• Chocolat- We must measure our goodness, not by what we don’t do, what we deny ourselves, what we resist, or who we exclude. Instead, we should measure ourselves by what we embrace, what we create, and who we include.
• Coco- Aspiring musician Miguel, confronted with his family's ancestral ban on music, enters the Land of the Dead to find his great-great-grandfather, a legendary singer.