A key “teacher” in my life was David Schwartz who wrote a compelling book, Who Cares?- Rediscovering Community. It speaks of responses that will lead to better more enriched lives for us all and about the remnants of hospitality that can still be found if we look with right eyes. Often our institutions shape us so we don’t see these gems. As John McKnight often asks what are the implications when we think our formal systems can care.

“So persuasive is the power of the institutions we have created that they shape not only our preferences, but actually our sense of possibilities” – Ivan Illich