Our fate is ultimately interdependent with all living things and with nature. We must create community with all of life and nature if we are to continue to have a future. We are part of an astonishingly intricate web of life, a web that includes everything from the water cycle to the various forms of love that connect humans. We depend on that intricate web not just for the quality of our lives, but for life itself. Community is sacred because without community, we are nothing.
Community is the sine qua non - that, without which, nothing.
Community is created and sustained one tiny act at a time. As a beach is an accumulation of tiny grains of sand, so community is an accumulation of individual actions by individual people. We feel painfully at the mercy of individuals who hate rather than love. The bombers, the terrorists of the world, the serial killers. We feel so vulnerable.