Building the Community

You will see that I have added a new Gizmo on the right for other Blogs. I am very interesting in keeping a collection of your writings and comments. At the moment, it has one entry, that of Jake Melville. Melville is in South Korea at the moment teaching English. It is, of course, a tense time on the peninsula. We hope that peace prevails not only for his sake alone but for all the residents of the region. No one needs a conflict.

I have been reading your letters and blogs from near and far for many years. I appreciate them not because they are profound, as profundity is difficult to achieve, but because they are honest. After a few postings that are filled with the excitement of a new country or a new job, they tend to stall as you look for something important to say. After some interval, long or short, when you realize that importance is oversold, you start looking for what is interesting, what is engaging, what is the part of the world that lives in you. A Thanksgiving in Siberia. A baby in California. An Internship in DC that is pretending to be a job. A store in Brooklyn that is searching for a market. All of these are good stories and all are welcome here.