The Vine

Speaking of New Yorker covers, this week’s is particularly apt.

Enlarge the image and you’ll see that each person is plugged into his or her own private world of headsets—except the for the ones who are trying to get their attention: the musician, the protester, the soapbox guy, the (Barney-costumed) leaflet distributor, and the baby.

Calls to mind the great quote from Herbert Prochnow: “A city is a large community where people are lonesome together.”

It’s not an indictment of cities.

It’s a commentary on us.

As a parting thought…if I may attempt to wrap the themes of “city” and “community” into a shameless plug for PCBC…I’m hoping to catch up with many of you in San Francisco next week, where our own little community will most assuredly not be lonesome together. See you soon.