Comments on: My Isolated Opinion http://girlinapartyhat.com/index.php/2011/01/an-isolated-opinion/ Girl in a Party Hat Mon, 02 May 2022 06:16:31 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.40 By: Missy http://girlinapartyhat.com/index.php/2011/01/an-isolated-opinion/comment-page-1/#comment-7186 Tue, 25 Jan 2011 17:14:17 +0000 http://girlinapartyhat.com/?p=3341#comment-7186 Hi Amy,
This is a really good article… I can see why the editor published it! I agree with a lot but thankfully live in a neighborhood like Noan… I guess I’m lucky (or my kids are)…but its hopeful to know that some communities are working! (Although no one here talks out loud about their political views… maybe that’s why its so civil?)

]]> By: Mary Ellen http://girlinapartyhat.com/index.php/2011/01/an-isolated-opinion/comment-page-1/#comment-7110 Tue, 18 Jan 2011 04:38:34 +0000 http://girlinapartyhat.com/?p=3341#comment-7110 Amy, how did you get to be so wise? Thank you for writing this. I’ve thought many of these same things. I don’t want to give up but now I’m not just frustrated, I’m scared.
ME

]]> By: Noan http://girlinapartyhat.com/index.php/2011/01/an-isolated-opinion/comment-page-1/#comment-7104 Mon, 17 Jan 2011 16:32:09 +0000 http://girlinapartyhat.com/?p=3341#comment-7104 Amy, I think your article provides an apt and timely description of Arizona.

And yet, I live in the friendliest of neighborhoods here in Arizona. I know my neighbors, lots of them. I know their kids, I know their dogs. We eat in each others homes and watch out for each others children. We celebrate together and help each other out when needed.

How I ask myself did a community such as my neighborhood happen here in Arizona?

I wonder what we could learn from taking a closer look at the communities in Arizona that do work.

]]> By: Sativa http://girlinapartyhat.com/index.php/2011/01/an-isolated-opinion/comment-page-1/#comment-7092 Sat, 15 Jan 2011 18:29:19 +0000 http://girlinapartyhat.com/?p=3341#comment-7092 Amy, thank you for putting into words so many of the complexities I’ve been grappling with this week — for posing the questions,”Who should have citizenship? Health insurance? An organ transplant? A gun?”
In the desert there can be a sense of remoteness, a landscape magnified, but then too there are those expansive skies. I’ve often wondered why those expansive skies of the desert don’t more often lead to expansive thought.

]]> By: Tricia http://girlinapartyhat.com/index.php/2011/01/an-isolated-opinion/comment-page-1/#comment-7091 Sat, 15 Jan 2011 15:59:11 +0000 http://girlinapartyhat.com/?p=3341#comment-7091 Thanks, Amy, once again for speaking Arizona’s “other” voice. We won’t recover, and, in a way, I think it’s important that we don’t. There is no room for complacency, especially here in the Wild West. We have much work to do.

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