Community Agoraphobia

[Suzanne Metelko]

As I have traveled from event to party to event to party this weekend, I've heard person after person express a recurring dread about leaving Lakewood, for any reason. They don't want to drive to Ursuline College, they don't want to go to Crocker Park, they don't want to drive to the east coast. Don't get me wrong, they don't want to stay in their home, they're very happy to walk to the park for a band concert, bike to a friends, meet at the ice cream store, hike thru the valley. They like staying put in the cozy, congested, friendly and familiar confines of their community.

Could it be that we're all coming down with ..... community agoraphobia?

Is is spreading?

Has it infected anyone you know?

[Kenneth Warren]

In an increasingly frantic era of high tech alien-nation, the nourishing and stimulating fellowship available within Lakewood makes the case for a rather unique complex called:

Agora = an open space in a town.

Philia = neighborly love.

Kenneth Warren

[Stephen Calhoun]

Temenos = container

(We've discussed, Ken, the quasi-hermetic (i.e. 'sealed,' sealed-away, concealed,) tribes that find Lakewood to be congenial.)

Might speak here of a kind of force-field too.

Intuitions?

[Grace O'Malley]

Or maybe it's just the price of gas?

[Suzanne Metelko]

Grace,

Ever since I found out that we pay an average of $5 a gallon for bottled water, the price of gas hasn't bothered me a bit.

Suzanne

[Jim O'Bryan]

Grace,

Ever since I found out that we pay an average of $5 a gallon for bottled water, the price of gas hasn't bothered me a bit.

Suzanne

Suzanne/Grace

Just another reason why we live in the best location in the nation! As bottled water skyrockets, we sit on the only reserve that matters. We can live without oil, but water, that's a whole different thing.

Jim

[Kenneth Warren]