We romanticize a perfect Christmas, a birthday, a street, a view, a moment.  Marvelous in its uniqueness, these moments cannot be duplicated.  Yet - we find it so comforting to think things can stay the same. They do not. Forces of decay, decline, destruction, or of reinvention, reuse, rehabilitation, renovation, are always pressing.  New ideas, new trends, new people.

What if we were able to define the essence of what we want to remain the same?   Is it the familiarity of sitting down for lunch at a local restaurant and seeing faces familiar to you?  Is it the pace of the traffic, the knowing of a friendly yielding at a congested intersection?  Is it the sense of being known and comfortable among friends and neighbors?    

What if what we want to stay the same could be captured in a sense of community?

A sense of belonging?  

What if it could be better? 

Originally posted in Full Intention-Full Disclosure in February 2016