A Circle of Gifts
"Wherever I go and ask people what is missing from their lives, the most
common answer (if they are not impoverished or seriously ill) is
“community.” What happened to community, and why don’t we have it any
more? There are many reasons – the layout of suburbia, the disappearance
of public space, the automobile and the television, the high mobility
of people and jobs – and, if you trace the “why’s” a few levels down,
they all implicate the money system."
