Sr. Amira,
What you share below is similar to stories I hear from my students, especially Latin American students and even a couple of Orlando natives. The loss of community is distressing to them and it contributes to the loss of meaning that many college and university teachers see in their students, yet few educational institutions address this loss of community or meaning. There is a palpable longing for the kinds of belonging and connectedness common in these communities (mostly) of the past.
Michael Nagler, Gandhian scholar at Berkley, sees that this loss of community and the loss of meaning are directly connected to the violence toward nature we are witnessing on an ever increasing level. For more on michael's work, google him and METTA Center.
jim
On Sep 13, 2012, at 11:44 PM, "Marilyn J. Amira Taylor" <pippinwithjob28@earthlink.net> wrote:
> Also, Jim, loved the comments yesterday or day before (I have gone back to work and 17-18 hr days this week are killing me already...)about community. I grew up in an old world community, and while certainly not perfect, it was closer than anything I have seen elsewhere in the US to what you talked about. My other half is from the high Atlas in Morocco, and he still is very much "village" mentality in many things, and my, are there differences. We truly could learn a lot from a "village".
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