Community is Conversation

I like the idea of a noun like "community"(something often presented as a fixed entity) instead being the dynamic result of a million personal decisions. Community is what comes of many, many small investments. People choosing to (or choosing not to) talk with one another, scrape each others' cars out of snowdrifts, share dinner... Those are the small things. And the big things-- like maintaining schools, facing crime in neighborhoods, deciding what businesses are welcome where you live-- grow from the small things having been done.

On Thursday, April 3, I'm putting together a dialogue called "Community is Conversation" at Visible Voice Books in Tremont (1023 Kenilworth). It started off as another "Stewards" reading, but honestly, I'd very much like to move from the point of simply putting the material forward, and instead talk among friends and strangers about some of the ideas the book goes into.

The event announcement follows. If you're into it, come on by...

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Do you ever think about the role of community in modern-day America?

About what brings people together and pushes them apart?

About what impact virtual reality is having on how we interact with one another face to face?

About the increasingly tentative hold young people have on history and what that does
to our investment in the world around us?

About where hopeful momentum can come from when there seem to be too many reasons
not to care anymore?


Come discuss the kinds of ideas we don’t talk about enough, in a night inspired by ‘Stewards of the Lost Lands,’ a new collection of work by kate sopko about how an American mental terrain can limit the social initiative of people who care.

You don’t have to have read the book to be a part of the discussion. You just have to be interested.


Community is Conversation: A Reading and Dialogue based on Stewards of the Lost Lands
Thursday, April 3, 8:00 PM
Visible Voice Books (1023 Kenilworth Avenue)