New year of shining a light on community
Thoreson
“Civilization is a stream with banks. The stream is sometimes filled with blood from people killing, stealing, shouting and doing things historians usually record, while on the banks, unnoticed, people build homes, make love, raise children, sing songs, write poetry. The story of civilization is the story of what happened on the banks.” Preface to the first volume of The Story of Civilization by Will Durant.
I’ve long loved this quote and use it for a philosophical template of what I hope to achieve each week in this column ... focus on the people on the banks. Sincere thanks to everyone who’s allowed me to share their interesting, funny, heartwarming and sometimes heartbreaking moments of life in this column the past year.
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