Keely Adler

“There’s this idea of civil discourse and of wanting to work on things together. To have equal opportunity and to be collaborative and to be part of a community. And I think that’s pretty unique to this generation and it’s hopefully exciting for the future of this country.”

Enchantment is a practice, and a collective one. We will have to return our attention to the places of beauty and pleasure and joy and magic and empowerment. We will have to do it again and again. This is not a solitary practice. We will have to lean on each other - human and more than.

It’s a happy place. I don’t know why—baked in with the algorithm, took off during a pandemic, a zoomer thing, because they have been copycatting some early adopter—booktok is happy. It’s about being excited, and discovering, and sharing, and funny jokes and upbeat music. It’s a little serotonin lift every time I go there.

the New England village, in literary depictions, can have some of the wildness, the unpredictability, of country life. It can be strange, not simply flat.

Comparing and contrasting that tendency to make generalizations can very easily devalue the experiences of humans who sense the world in very different ways.

defined as “connections among individuals—social networks and the norms of reciprocity and trustworthiness that arise from them.”

The role of a successful place is to provide a catalytic context for missions.