Community (Jan. 23)

Stay in one place long enough and keep from sticking your head in the ground and inevitably you will develop a community. In most cases you will have your hat in many different communities around what you like to do, with work and with play. But why is this community something to be proud of? Why do these seemingly random people mean so much to you? It starts with a shared experience and you mix it with time and you end up with memories. This receipe is what produces community. It is like baking your favorite cookies. You sample some of the dough along the way and the smell is just amazing and then as soon as they come out of the oven you dare to burn yourself just to get a taste of the amazingness that it is. And you wonder why you become so attached to your community?