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Building Community
"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 and 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 that you have, like a camcorder or a breakfast nook. No, it is something that you do. And you have to do it all the time." - Alan Durning, This Place on Earth: Home and the Practice of Permanence, p. 264.