And of course we checked to make sure our neighbors links properly led to us. Helpful neighbors gave advice to those having trouble setting up their links. Others got impatient and started laying sidewalk to the next person in the chain. The room starts getting an air of excitement. It looks like we may have close to a thousand essays in the chain.
Some people write to say how much they love their neighbors.
I've already met some of mine. On one side I have J. Watkins , who loves some of the same books I do, and Gregg Stephan who is an art photographer. One of my students' neighbors include Avedon Carol from London with Feminists Against Censorship, and Bill Humphries from Madison, WI who I like right away. We're truly becoming a community. They're working together to improve their community and to make it work.