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The Row Boat"Had we but world enough, and time..." *
in community12/16/2005 11:36:29A wonderful conversation with a friend (an orthodox Jew) who lives at the co-op I used to live in reminded me of this. Living there was a wonderful year of my life and that place was precisely why, or rather, the community that the place allowed. Community is such an over-said word but truly it is the only promise of the eschaton we have. Tamar [her daughter] is partly responsible for the title of this book in that when I was beginning it she was writing me about how alone a mother of young children always is. I had also just heard from an elderly woman who had lived a long and full life, and she too spoke of her loneliness. I thought again, "The only answer in this life, to the loneliness we are all bound to feel, is community. The living together, working together, sharing together, loving God and loving our brother, and living close to him in community so we can show our love for Him." [Dorothy Day, The Long Loneliness, 243.] - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - |
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