This is the lesson I take from Montmartre, and the communities I have seen all over the world working within their own sphere of influence: We cannot seek to change the world, but we can choose to change where we are, and doing so will change who we are and what we do, and what we do may very well one day have changed all that is far beyond our... See more

Rather, as organisms, we become what is needed of us by the greater web of life within which we exist. Our shape and our function is not defined by individual machinations nor personal preference. We become who we are through what our territoria asks of us. And because of that immense web of mutuality, we cannot be transplanted or supplanted. We... See more