I think we create community around us wherever we feel most comfortable. I am blessed, like you, to have a wonderful community around me both online and offline (actually, that sounds a little arrogant as I am not the centre of those communities, just a part of them). Like my mum, I believe that it is a sad trend when communities break down and people stop caring about each other.

If we can nurture those communities online and give to them as much as we take, then our businesses and social lives will be so much better.

Warm regards,

Lisa

P.S. Still haven’t persuaded mum to Twitter – she says she does enough of that offline!

There is community. I meet my French teacher in the supermarket and we kiss, ask each other how we are and how our family are. We care. A child who misbehaves gets a slap on the leg – perhaps that is why it is so nice to be in a restaurant with small children who know how to behave.

The community ran out of water a year or so ago and our farmer fitted us up with non drinkable water in the house from his well. Nothing asked for it, just the normal local kindness. I have only ever heard myself discussed as to where I live and how we have fitted in because they do not understand that I understand enough French.

In the winter my on-line life of friends is more important to me than off-line as I am unwell and the cold makes me literally hibernate. In the summer we have so many visitors that I don’t have time to fit it all in. I live in a place where people love to come and leave their cares behind. They can also see the Milky Way high above us if they stay sober long enough.

You are part of the community – it is up to you to make it what you want.

The article above was spoiled by the horrible comment on Twitter. Perhaps it is better if the the Reverend Marion does not read things like that. I presume she is over 60?

Love, not pins make the world go round, kisses in the supermarket between two women who are so glad to see each other makes it go round happily.

Di – The Fool On The Hill