For this first discussion, please describe using detail and description the community where you live or a community where you have previously lived.

Part 1: What Do Our Communities Look Like? Tell us about the geography or land, the demographics or composition of people in the area. Who are the people who generally live in the area/community? Are there clear values or common cultures? Does your community have an identity? (I live near the Grand Canyon, so the identity is a small mountain town near the Grand Canyon). What is the overall sense or "vibe" of the community?

Part 2: Thoughts on Communities Have we moved away from traditional communities of comfortable, close-knit relationships to the more impersonal or remote relationships of economics, the workplace, and the digital world? Can the traditional and contemporary aspects of the community be integrated? How so? Finally, describe how people might belong to more than one community and what those might be.