ASIN: B009AWRYF8
Publisher: Amazon.com Services LLC
Pages: 125
Once upon a time we knew our neighbors—their names, their stories, their hopes and dreams, their aches and awes. We shared meals with them. We shared our lives with them. We shared a deep commitment to the common good with them. Once upon a time we reached out to the stranger—with acts of mercy, with respect and understanding, with charity and neighborliness. We shared our hands with them. We shared our treasures with them. We shared the sidewalk with them.But in an age of increasing isolation, hostility, and indifference, that time has largely come and gone. We do not get out enough. We scarcely know our neighbors. We often fear the stranger. We are busy living our own lives, comfortably detached from one another, unaware that we need one another if we are ever to be most fully at home in the world. The antidote to the isolation and hostility of our day, and the pathway that leads us ...
