{"id":3385,"date":"2016-07-25T09:30:56","date_gmt":"2016-07-25T13:30:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/fieldnotes\/?p=3385"},"modified":"2016-07-15T15:22:06","modified_gmt":"2016-07-15T19:22:06","slug":"community-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/fieldnotes\/2016\/07\/community-is\/","title":{"rendered":"Community is:"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Awkward beers shared at a high school reunion, the Reddit thread I visit to share research about Game of Thrones episodes, an annual yelling match whose origins no one remembers each Thanksgiving dinner, subway riders throwing a few bucks to an underestimated musician who makes commuting a little more bearable, curt nods without eye contact from sweaty strangers at the gym, the other freshmen at university orientation who also feel fraudulent and terrified, a town that shows up to vote to ensure that the decisions \u2013 decisions about marriage and women\u2019s bodies and guns and people seeking refuge \u2013 made are the best for everyone<\/em>, Star Wars fans lined up for premieres in Jedi robes and Leia braids, the ones who show up to birthdays and weddings and funerals and bad days, the ones who\u2019ll jet off to St. Croix with you one night and wander the aisles of Target in sweat pants the next, a hashtag like #MakeDonaldDrumpfAgain that makes the world feel a little bit more humane, the graduation caps that rise through the air and give way to gravity together, a pickup soccer game of skins vs. shirts where no one learned to kick in the same country but it doesn\u2019t matter because the muscles in our feet are all the same.<\/p>\n

At turning points and during growth spurts, I tend to tell myself that community \u2013 that belonging<\/em> \u2013 is an elite condition, one with applications and interviews, or at the very least requires some excellent display of intelligence and charm on my part. But as I look around, I\u2019ve run out of numbers to count the communities around me. Other people\u2019s impact is deep in my bones, I pass through these groups effortlessly every day, and I\u2019m excited imagining the communities I don\u2019t even know I\u2019m a part of.<\/p>\n

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