Sorta connected to yesterday’s post. Here’s a Bernice Johnson Reagon quote on community. Dr Reagon is the founder of Sweet Honey in the Rock.
I’m not a soloist, I’m a song leader. And a song leader starts songs but you can’t finish without help. Singing does not make sense to me without the congregation because the point of the singing for the congregation is the form “the community” — it is like the song is not in and of itself a product. The song is not a product. The song exist to get to singing. And the singing is not a product. The singing exists to form the community and there isn’t anything higher than that that I’ve ever experienced.
I’ve more thoughts on this… related to how people come together, creating public goods, and the tragedy of the commons. But too many other things to do now.
Tue, May 26, 2009
Essays & Opinion