Old Friends, Old Ways

We had two friends from La Porte come visit us for lunch today. Sitting down over lunch and good conversation put a greater illumination on the isolation of this city life. It made me long for the small town and country lifestyle of sitting around a fire pit after dinner deeply engrossed in words, ideas and the feelings of love and friendship. I am a firm believer that an individual can never really experience life to its fullest outside of community. I was listening to a radio program a few weeks ago and heard someone quoted as often saying, "You will be exactly the same 5 years from now as you are today except for the people you meet and the books you read."