Thursday, June 20, 2002
Thoughts about community . . . 1. I don't always recognize it when I experience it - often because I'm so caught up in it that I don't try to create it. 2. It always sounds sweeter and smilier than it ever could be in reality. 3. No matter how frequently I experience it, I want more of it, with more people. 4. Sometimes the best approach to stimulating community is to sock someone in the nose**, then tearfully ask for forgiveness. Once you've both had a good cry, then a good laugh over it, you often have community. In a sense that's shallow, but recent experience has born that out.
**Disclaimer . . . no actual fellow community members were harmed in the writing of this blog through the application of fists to noses
