Small Communities

Meeting people is difficult,

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Meeting people is difficult, period. LA is a difficult place to meet people anyway, and Hollywood is such a small community. But I don’t make it a rule just to date other actors and people in the entertainment industry. It could work out with me and a dentist. It could work out with me and … Read more

I think one of

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I think one of the most important investments an organization like TNC (The Nature Conservancy) can make is in helping build local capacity – supporting the growth of a global network of small community-based entities. Help people who live within critical ecosystems help themselves and their neighbors to design a better future relationship between themselves … Read more

The pack of media

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The pack of media brayed and bellowed outside the house for seven weeks. Sol realized then what he had known and forgotten about very small communities: they were frequently annoying, always parochial, sometimes prying on a one-to-one level, but never had they subscribed to the vicious legacy of the so-called public’s right to know. Dan … Read more

Distance changes utterly when

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Distance changes utterly when you take the world on foot. A mile becomes a long way, two miles literally considerable, ten miles whopping, fifty miles at the very limits of conception. The world, you realize, is enormous in a way that only you and a small community of fellow hikers know. Planetary scale is your … Read more