Karen Christensen
About A Smaller Circle
Karen Christensen, CEO Berkshire Publishing Group
karen [at] berkshirepublishing [dot] com
Now that I’ve brought Jon Stewart into the community, or the discussion of community, I should mention that Berkshire Publishing created a database of “Community and Popular Culture” a few years ago, in conjunction with the Encyclopedia of Community. The database lists myriad movies, TV shows, novels, and even songs, mostly American but some from [...]
Posted: June 13th, 2008 under Community in the media.
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Community is a word that is used in dozens of ways. The Black community, community economics, your community bank, community spirit, community of practice. And everywhere together there are invitations to join one community or other. Even the Daily Show has a community. . How puzzled our grandparents and more distant ancestors would be by [...]
Posted: June 13th, 2008 under Community in the media.
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T. S. Eliot wasn’t the only 20th-century poet fond of cheese, it seems. W. H. Auden wrote: A poet’s hope: to be, like some valley cheese, local, but prized elsewhere. This reminded me of a passage from the Bible, from which the common phrase, “a prophet without honor” comes (misquoted, as you can see): Now [...]
Posted: June 1st, 2008 under Uncategorized.
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