Since my previous post was about finding community and the one before that dealt with finding a life-long passion, I want to offer you this link to an 8-minute NPR story that pulls both together.
Shari Caudron, who is about my age, confesses that she has been serially passionate about a succession of things - running, saving the earth, photography. When she began to discover people who are totally sold-out to narrow and puzzling passions (the Andy Griffith show, collecting Barbies, talking about Star Wars) she wrote a book called Who Are You People? Her research taught her that it isn’t just the common passion that sets these folks apart but the community they find in each other’s company. When one Barbie-collector lost her son, the outpouring of support she received came not from local neighbors and friends but from “Barbie Nation”.
Give it a listen.
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