For Josh and Mary Jean

Ill fares the land,
to hastening ills a prey,
where wealth accumulates,
and men decay.

OLIVER GOLDSMITH (1770)

A proper community … is a commonwealth: a place,
a resource, an economy. It answers the needs, practical
as well as social and spiritual, of its members—
among them the need to need one another.

WENDELL BERRY (1987)