Tag: Community
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It’s better outside
I have a blessedly short commute to work, about three miles each way. The fastest way to work involves driving through a suburban, tree-lined neighborhood. This neighborhood is a lot like mine: single family homes with a third to half acre lawns, streets with sidewalks, trash collected on Tuesday and Fridays (I know because I…
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Real Life 101, Lesson 14: The meaning of religion
This is the fourteenth in an indeterminate series of entries that provides my “real world” lessons to young adults. It is my conviction that these lessons are rarely taught either at home or in the schools. For those who did not get them growing up you can get them from me for free. This is…
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Covenanted
When you live in cyberspace can you find real community? Does having with a network of friends online amount to the same thing as a network of friends in real life? For the last few years I have been puzzling over these thoughts. I have been wondering if my family’s social life has become too…
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A Tribute to Robert E. Simon
Sometimes giants do walk among us. In 1984 I moved from Gaithersburg, Maryland to Reston, Virginia solely because I wanted to live in Reston. Earlier that year I had attended a science fiction convention in Reston. While the convention was not memorable, the time I spent in Reston was. Here was a planned community that…
Occam's Razor 