community

just wishin anyone visiting this site a peacefull and sustainable(seriously folks) christmas.

I'm new here and not quite sure what to say.I'll give it a go.

I've moved around a lot in my life and my work has taken me into hundreds of different communities - In Australia and Ireland. Some of the communities have been geographic and others have been communities of interest.

When you live and work in as many communities as I have there emerge a number of common threads in the big pattern:

* I am the stranger in town
* It's up to me to make the effort of connection
* I take my time to get to know people
* Trust is built over time and not because you have an important sounding job title