Your attitude matters. There’s value in experiencing cultures beyond our own, but choosing to create in a smaller language can feel isolating. Work often goes unread, and even those who should engage deeply, like editors, can be superficial.
A book club can nurture a real sense of connection, but some exist online without real membership.…
Your attitude matters. There’s value in experiencing cultures beyond our own, but choosing to create in a smaller language can feel isolating. Work often goes unread, and even those who should engage deeply, like editors, can be superficial.
A book club can nurture a real sense of connection, but some exist online without real membership. A new magazine might advocate for the return to print culture, yet post on social media daily. There’s an overwhelming abundance of everything out there, but is there really a community?
A lot of the time things stagnate on the internet, but that also happens out here, f2f. Many things just wither away, while some thrive - however improbable that might be.
I think we need to try, knowing things *might* fall apart, but with the hope that they might just work. But that takes time, effort, patience, as do things in the f2f world.
Your attitude matters. There’s value in experiencing cultures beyond our own, but choosing to create in a smaller language can feel isolating. Work often goes unread, and even those who should engage deeply, like editors, can be superficial.
A book club can nurture a real sense of connection, but some exist online without real membership. A new magazine might advocate for the return to print culture, yet post on social media daily. There’s an overwhelming abundance of everything out there, but is there really a community?
A lot of the time things stagnate on the internet, but that also happens out here, f2f. Many things just wither away, while some thrive - however improbable that might be.
I think we need to try, knowing things *might* fall apart, but with the hope that they might just work. But that takes time, effort, patience, as do things in the f2f world.