Shorewood has all the ingredients of community.
What we need now is to put together all of those social elements that bring about the development of community.
It seems to me as it does to others as well, that this effort must be based on working with long-term residents of the village and with those likely to remain within or have returned to the community in order to further these community sustaining energies.
What is needed in addition to a physical central point is a centralizing community force and the intellectual or community links that make community function as one fully conscious coordinated organism.
Such an organism requires a central social cerebral element, a distributing and information receiving point, a point of consciousness.
Ordinarily this is not found in the management or organizational function of government because government itself is a non-functioning overlay of community, an inanimate shield-like skin not necessarily joined to any of the social nerves or the response nodes.
A certain amount of primeval life seems to have already been stimulated and set forth by the current actions of a certain social life-giving, life-creating agency calling itself “Shorewood's Connection Caring Communities Partnership.”
In these actions, we shall see the beginning of a new life in its formative stages. Let's watch it evolve. Let's become part of its energy creating forces.
