The Importance of Community in a Crisis

I loved my community back there in an idealistic sense, but those very tight social bonds that you have in a small southern town, I felt they held me back. And the world looks a lot different when you're 45 as opposed to 15. It's not that that was really a wrong choice; it's just different. You know, I love big cities. I love the bookstores. I love everything about city life. And I did not go back home as a prodigal. This is not a story of how I turned away from my wicked big city ways and went back to embrace the clear country air. It wasn't like that at all. In fact, one thing