#reverb10 - Community

I’m taking part in #reverb10 this December…when time allows!

 

we and our shadows

Today’s Prompt: 

December 7 – Community Prompt:  Where have you discovered community, online or otherwise, in 2010? What community would you like to join, create or more deeply connect with in 2011? (Author: Cali Harris)

 

Community…our peeps…our tribe. We all have them…family, childhood friends, workmates, classmates, neighbours, sports teams, spiritual groups and other organizations we might belong to.

Can a community be as small as two people or does it need to be bigger?  It’s all about belonging, connecting and sharing.  Some people are loners, but still connect with others somewhere, somehow.  It’s essential to our sense of who we are and how we fit in to the world.

Throughout our lives we've have different communities…they change as we ourselves change and we find comfort with like minds…people who understand us or share a common interest. People come and go from our communities…as do we ourselves.  Sometimes it’s a process of trial and error and sometime it’s an instant connection that fits like a snug glove.

Rather than reaching out to new communities this year I’ve been focusing on my own inner community…me, myself and I.  We really need to know and love ourselves before we’re able to effectively share our amazing “wonderfulness” with others.  Any neediness just pushes the tribe away!

The newest and most encompassing community in our world is the internet.  It connects people who would never have had the opportunity to connect otherwise.  It crosses international boundaries and vastly different cultures to bring people of a comment interest together. 

It brought you, from your part of the world, together with me, in mine.

And I’m so very, very glad we’re connected in this community!

Happy blessing’s of joyful connections to everyone,

 

Comments

[charlane]

the very thing i love about blogger - being connected

[Sally G.]

I am grateful for the Internet for the many beautiful, new connections in my life too!

Like you, for instance ...

PS: Are you on Twitter by any chance? I'd like to Tweet your posts if you are.

[Serena]

Ah yes...I LOVE the blogging community!! I feel it has brought me so many new friendships and experiences. Great post, Kate!

As you have been focusing on your inner community this year, I have felt that 2010 has brought so much change in my life that my sense of Self has felt scattered. For 2011, I plan to focus on my inner community of Self.