I’m still on the job hunt… I’ve made some great connections and networks and we’ll see where all this leads. I’m hopeful. That’s something.
Need to get the Practicum blog up and running so I can put VC specific thoughts there. But I also need to get an Ohio driver’s liscence, plates, bank account, etc….. Got my library card yesterday though!!!! I am SO excited. I love libraries.
Interesting experiences with “community” yesterday. Not the reality of it, but the word/term/concept. In 2 different contexts yesterday I heard the term used to descirbe what the organization was trying to accomplish. One was a small group setting, the other was a large group setting. Neither, IMHO, had a real clue about what it really means to live in community. It was all about “connecting” with people, developing a comraderie, and mutual like-mindedness. Increasingly community has been less about these comfy ideals for me. Community involves depth, longevity, pain, hurt, process, “working-through-ness”. It is not something that can happen in a monthly meeting or chance encounter.
In that way I’m defining community pretty narrowly. There are broader aspects – ones that Joe Myers emphasizes in his book. I accept that. “Community” is sort of a prostituted word – spread out to cover a plethora of relational groupings and gatherings. We probably need better words – unfortunately, because I like the word “community”. “Common – Unity” I definitely think we need more of that.
By the way – some great church thinking going on over at Kevin’s.
I feel like what is going on underneath the surface of my life is a longing for belonging. I’m in such a place of flux right now… no job, not sure what our network of friends is going to be (though we’re getting early indications). I feel like the lense through which I am viewing life right now is – “where do I fit?”. Part of that is evidence of some of my inherent insecurity, but part (maybe most) is just that normal transition to a new locale and new people. I know we’ll get through it, but it will take time (and I’m not terribly patient).
