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which will be followed by bedtime.
I was just "scanning" my various communities.
The nature of a community and it's dynamics is distinct from a group and it's dynamics. Communities are large enough to include people you don't know well and other people you might think you know too well. There will be people you like and people you aren't all that fond off. But there will be something that holds the community together. It might be geography, heritage, profession or a hobby. it might any of a million things.
A group is tighter. It's members all like each other and there is more in common that some accident of alignment that creates a community.
That said, I have many groups to which I belong within my communities. For this I am well pleased. I love the folks in my groups.
I also have many communities. The ones I enjoy the most are the ones I give my time to.
What I am present to is that some of my communities operate as if they are groups on the level of love and friendship while maintaining the diversity that comes with community dynamics.
Take RHPS, for instance. I like everyone in cast. It is just big enough to slip into the community category. Add the regulars and it is definitely a community. With the regulars, there is only one person whose behavior I actively dislike.
I love a lot of people. And I love them in all their humanity -- the parts that are easy to love and the parts that are harder to love.
There's just a lot of love in my life.
I was just "scanning" my various communities.
The nature of a community and it's dynamics is distinct from a group and it's dynamics. Communities are large enough to include people you don't know well and other people you might think you know too well. There will be people you like and people you aren't all that fond off. But there will be something that holds the community together. It might be geography, heritage, profession or a hobby. it might any of a million things.
A group is tighter. It's members all like each other and there is more in common that some accident of alignment that creates a community.
That said, I have many groups to which I belong within my communities. For this I am well pleased. I love the folks in my groups.
I also have many communities. The ones I enjoy the most are the ones I give my time to.
What I am present to is that some of my communities operate as if they are groups on the level of love and friendship while maintaining the diversity that comes with community dynamics.
Take RHPS, for instance. I like everyone in cast. It is just big enough to slip into the community category. Add the regulars and it is definitely a community. With the regulars, there is only one person whose behavior I actively dislike.
I love a lot of people. And I love them in all their humanity -- the parts that are easy to love and the parts that are harder to love.
There's just a lot of love in my life.