Today, instead of doing school-reading like I should have, I read “This Place on Earth,” which is about Northwest ecology, both what has been done, and also what could be / needs to be done.
Here is a nugget of wisdom:
Community, I am beginning to understand, is made through a skill I have never learned or valued: the ability to pass time with people you do not know or will not know well, talking about nothing in particular, with no end in mind, just to build trust, just to be sure of each other, just to be neighborly. A community is not something you have, like a camcorder or a breakfast nook. No, it is something you do. And you have to do it all the time.
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