[7/1995] ‘Community’ is a gift – i.e., ‘community’ happens, is given, results from the way a life is lived. In order words, such ‘community’ cannot be created.
[October 2005 addendum: The 1995 date for this comment about ‘community’ is significant. I was by then completely inside the medical education/practice sphere. I was discovering that ‘community’ is given or happens when one concentrates on being ‘with the world face to face’, on initiating/gesturing ‘community’ toward individuals without the expectation of reciprocity.]