Jon,
Great post and wonderful points and reminders.

Do you know what was going through my mind while I read this post? (enough so that I read it again)

It was that one line you wrote, "A community builds strong leaders. Leaders build strong communities. One cannot be done without the other." That's it. That is the POINT.

We are in this together and without each other... we are nothing. We are not a community, we are not a people... We are in this together and we are not alone. Each of us brings something...special, tangible, VALUABLE... with us when we come together.