Time was the front porch was the glue of a community; you’d sit there, close enough to the sidewalk to talk to your neighbors as they passed, but far enough that they wouldn’t come up unless invited. Now instead of towns built for people, we have tacky suburbs built for cars; your house is dominated by the garage (with maybe a slight at the idea of a porch, like the Otterloops’). People sit in the back of the house, isolated – and it wouldn’t help to sit in front because nobody is walking, as everybody drives everywhere, there being no sidewalks. And another piece of our humanity shrivels (ain’t I cheery this AM?)
Time was the front porch was the glue of a community; you’d sit there, close enough to the sidewalk to talk to your neighbors as they passed, but far enough that they wouldn’t come up unless invited. Now instead of towns built for people, we have tacky suburbs built for cars; your house is dominated by the garage (with maybe a slight at the idea of a porch, like the Otterloops’). People sit in the back of the house, isolated – and it wouldn’t help to sit in front because nobody is walking, as everybody drives everywhere, there being no sidewalks. And another piece of our humanity shrivels (ain’t I cheery this AM?)