EDITORIAL: The needs of the community
The worst times show the best of us. Strangers become neighbors. Heads of government become heads of state. Mall walkers become citizens. Ordinary people become heroes.
Remember when
Remember when
I thought
Forget the politics. Cut some deals. Help the people; serve the country.
Institutions -- corporations, churches -- and human associations -- families, political parties, farm worker unions -- need a certain amount of adversity to occasionally renew and reaffirm their core values.
World War II was horrific. It produced the Greatest Generation. The wars in
Does it take the great flood to pull Americans out of the intellectual morass of
Maybe.
How do we hang on to this rare feeling that seems to come with adversity? The feeling of collective courage, clarity, and brotherhood.
I am tempted to say: Turn off the TV. Listen to music. Take a walk. You might be able to see a neighbor as a neighbor, not as part of the "the other side."
But there is something else that can nurture citizenship. And that is community -- local and immediate community.
Any time people band together to help each other in small groups, neighborhood groups, citizen groups, the soil of democracy is fed.
Last week I met a classy and civilized fellow named
His is an amazing success story and it interests
Historic South is restoring a few houses a year now.
Yes, it is. Anyone can talk the talk. Only a few walk the walk and actually tutor or mentor or hammer nails. Ex-congressman
My cousin Caryn lives in
What does calamity show us? The needs of the community.
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