Re: {PBJFlorida} Fwd: community definition

Jim:  I really like what you have said, outlined.  I miss being part of a community - and I have tried many institutions - seeking, seeking.  Perhaps this will be our community right here - and then we could plan to get together for lunch at least once a month to say where we are!  and where we are going.

Rita Lucey

On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 10:13 AM, jim belcher <jimbelcher350@me.com> wrote:

Penny and all,

Community means something much more than discussion of problems and solutions and actions. It is a space were people come together to connect deeply, to know each other and to be known and to create possibility together.  Possibility calls us to the future; possibility calls us to action; possibility empowers collective creativity. Possibility unites and engages us.

(Focus on problems/solutions keeps us stuck in the past, separated from each other and mired  in our opinions).   

Possibility is a product of collective creative collaboration.  And the birthplace of this kind of collaboration, connection, sense of belonging and being deeply known is vulnerability.  

When we shift our focus from problems to possibilities and from isolation to connectedness and from scarcity to "we are enough", we begin to heal ourselves, our relationships and our communities.

Building genuine community is action.

jim

On Dec 16, 2012, at 10:16 AM, Penny Villegas <pennyvillegas31@gmail.com> wrote:

Define community for me. Does it mean that we gather to discuss problems and solutions? If that's what it means then we do indeed suck. We haven't even been able to get a reading group together. So I changed it to a discussion group with invitations to people to bring what they want to discuss.  Nope.

 

I find some community with the Idignity monthly events when we help homeless people get social security cards, birth certificates, etc. My Sofia Circle, a group of women meeting for more than ten years to pray and meditate and study, also is community. I have wanted to find a "community" for social action, peace action but I haven't found it yet.

 

Does anybody want to work to get Pam Bondi out? Rick Scott?

I'd like to work for gun control and for more recycling.

 

Help!

Penny

 

On Sun, Dec 16, 2012 at 9:10 AM, jim belcher <jimbelcher350@me.com> wrote:

Penny and Miguel and all,

We are not the only ones frustrated, angry, and indignant.  These crises demand collective and creative action.  There is no one answer, no simple action.  Science does not know how this is going to play out; we do know we are at several catastrophic tipping points.

The best we can do at this point is to begin coming together to build strong, collaborative, creative communities, able to respond to the changes as they come.  Currently we suck at community, collaboration and creativity.

Jim

On Dec 14, 2012, at 3:18 PM, Penny <pennyvillegas31@gmail.com> wrote:

Thanks Jim and all.  This is a great article and I know how right she is.  But I feel very frustrated that smart people who know the situation just sit around and exchange good articles and tsktsk about it. 

Sorry for my bah humbug attitude but 

I want some ideas with action or plan. 

Sent from my iPhone

On Dec 13, 2012, at 7:46 PM, jim belcher <jimbelcher350@me.com> wrote:

See below. 

Our sense of loss of meaning is directly tied to the violence toward nature we are all complicit in. 

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