"(And now that I think about it a bit, creating a little online newsletter for a hundred people seems a bit… Well, one step at a time, I guess.)." I smiled.
You got it right. Our forebears had something special that we could glimpse for a time. We never could've known, then, how precious it was, it was so ordinary. But to regain it—that little community, that hospitality, that companionship, those open houses (we had those growing up)—especially now that so much of it has practically evaporated, will require all kinds of efforts, not the least of which, this newsletter.
I applaud this effort, and you too, Hilary. And I'm happy to hear I'm one of the first one hundred who do.
What a lovely post. I, for one, completely agree that it's an illusion that we must take the "other road". My family has always lived a bit on the fringes, so I'm no stranger to going about things in completely different ways than most people. It's not always easy, but it can be done, and the result is enormously better. I'm delighted to be one of the first 100 subscribers. I'm very much looking forward to where all this leads.
“We are out here on the edge of the old Empire again, it seems, and I think if we want the whole world to be better, the way to do it is not lobbying or activism; I think it’s to create it where we find ourselves right now.”
Yes. Here, too.
Really digging in on that this last year.
Building up around me what’s been there all along.
This is the way. We may start by thinking it is being "hemmed in" to pay attention mainly to the real and immediate that's right in front of us. But Jordan Peterson and St. Philip Neri say essentially the same thing: whatever you are called by God to do it isn't in some far-flung future; it isn't in some mythological ideal social, geographic or financial condition. It's right here, right now. We reject Jellyby Syndrome.
"(And now that I think about it a bit, creating a little online newsletter for a hundred people seems a bit… Well, one step at a time, I guess.)." I smiled.
You got it right. Our forebears had something special that we could glimpse for a time. We never could've known, then, how precious it was, it was so ordinary. But to regain it—that little community, that hospitality, that companionship, those open houses (we had those growing up)—especially now that so much of it has practically evaporated, will require all kinds of efforts, not the least of which, this newsletter.
I applaud this effort, and you too, Hilary. And I'm happy to hear I'm one of the first one hundred who do.
What a lovely post. I, for one, completely agree that it's an illusion that we must take the "other road". My family has always lived a bit on the fringes, so I'm no stranger to going about things in completely different ways than most people. It's not always easy, but it can be done, and the result is enormously better. I'm delighted to be one of the first 100 subscribers. I'm very much looking forward to where all this leads.
I'm glad you're here too, Kendra.
“We are out here on the edge of the old Empire again, it seems, and I think if we want the whole world to be better, the way to do it is not lobbying or activism; I think it’s to create it where we find ourselves right now.”
Yes. Here, too.
Really digging in on that this last year.
Building up around me what’s been there all along.
This is the way. We may start by thinking it is being "hemmed in" to pay attention mainly to the real and immediate that's right in front of us. But Jordan Peterson and St. Philip Neri say essentially the same thing: whatever you are called by God to do it isn't in some far-flung future; it isn't in some mythological ideal social, geographic or financial condition. It's right here, right now. We reject Jellyby Syndrome.