Article July 23, 2012 ISSUE

Borderless community

Walter Rodgers

Community can be a rather vague concept. It could refer to your own neighborhood, or to a district within a city or a county. It could refer to anything from a group of people bobbing at sea in a lifeboat, to an entire society of people with common interests.

Does your community extend beyond your house, apartment, or “the projects”? As far as the grocery store, your hairdresser, or the gas station? What about across the border into the next country where a different language is spoken? The question of how far your community stretches can be weighty.