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For much of history, if you asked someone to define “community,” they’d give you an answer that involved a physical location — a school, synagogue, church. Today, the word community invokes something more intimate: identity. It’s not something we’re born into, but something we choose.

“History as usually written is quite different from history as usually lived. The historian records the exceptional because it is interesting.” – Will Durant

If you want to summarize the changes in family structure over the past century, the truest thing to say is this: We’ve made life freer for individuals and more unstable for families.

“The best arguments in the world won’t change a single person’s mind. The only thing that can do that is a good story.” - Richard Powers

i wish people celebrated the internet as much as they bemoan it. it’s literally a World Wide Web of humans, an unthinkable miracle that you and i can connect because i tap my fingers on a piece of glass for 30 seconds. let us not be numb to this!! bring back wonder & appreciation

As Arnold Bennett famously said, ‘Good taste is better than bad taste, but bad taste is better than no taste.