Innis

The Texans call it neighbouring. The Desert Fathers called it staying in your cell. Abba Moses said sit in your cell and your cell will teach you everything. He did not mean the building. He meant the commitment to remain. The trust that makes a group of people load-bearing to each other is a function of time and place and accumulated presence and it does not transfer. You cannot move it. You can only make it again, slowly, in the new place, if the people come and if they stay.