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Well, for me the constant has always been the Jewish community. Jews love networking, and we seem to be in the running for "most up in each other's business, ever," so that works out well for me.
But I've collected friends from stints in different communities, passed through in different jobs: the film industry, the nonprofit world, professional writers.
Way back when I lived in Santa Cruz, California, I was part of the stoner community, but true stoner communities are hard to find outside places like Santa Cruz. Now I just have friends from other communities who happen to toke.
I guess now that I think about it, one of the reasons I value TFP so much is that, since my Jewish world and my professional world became one when I entered rabbinical school, it's really refreshing and helpful to be part of a group interaction that involves mostly people from outside my usual spheres. I think without you guys, or something like TFP, my world would be getting a little too confining, my interactions a little too incestuous, if you take my meaning....
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Dull sublunary lovers love,
Whose soul is sense, cannot admit
Absence, because it doth remove
That thing which elemented it.
(From "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning" by John Donne)
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