Community is a deeply satisfying experience of belonging. Anyone can experience it because community meets the human need to be accepted in the context of knowing and being known. While the tasks of obtaining food, safety and shelter often mask the need for community, one's deeply satisfying experience of belonging becomes the cornerstone of economic and emotional prosperity. Conversely, sustained avoidance of community is a reliable predictor for economic and emotional disaster.
There was a definite process by which one made people into friends, and it involved talking to them and listening to them for hours at a time.
Rebecca West (1892 - 1983)
I may not be the wisest, richest, wittiest or any number of other superlatives. I do, however, occasionally say edifying things. Some of my ideas have changed through the years. But that is to be expected given the magnitude of change in my personal circumstances these past few years. Please enjoy and feel free to comment on both the old and the new postings.
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