Community life is to gether ness

Being together. Is that community? If there is togetherness then there is a relationship amongst units. Another implication of community is life. Living is being is life. And implicit in the word community is individual, a single unit. At the basis of living is a single life communing with at least one other single life. Community then is one communing with others. What is it that one commune? Basic to being is life, basic to life is an individual. But that individual is thwarted without community. The first need of life is parentage. An individual must both have parents and be a parent to fulfill the basic law of life. After life is established in an individual, then the who of parentage steps back in favor of the what of parenting. Birds, hens especially, begin to nest. Plants and many insects begin to store food as quickly as possible. The bounty of the Earth becomes evident. This relationship between living thing and place sets the tone and example for the order of all that follows. The one brought forth the other, the other maintains the former. It is a given that if one wants to be a helper, then he must find a way to help others. The former helps by providing, the other helps by pruning. The helped then must get something that they want, otherwise the helper becomes nuisance rather than help. The first need being life, then an understanding of life is helpful. So, to think straightforwardly, we begin simply: that is to say we look for the basic understanding through the barest example-the individual life. When the individual is observed to unveil his needs then we find legacy, consumption, assimilation, expulsion, security and ownership.