I’ve been noticing a sharp decline in conversation.  I find myself driven to comment less. Fewer comments here.  It could have a direct relationship to my lack of face to face community.  My family,  which often does “cookout” type stuff on such holidays,  has not done so in the past 2-3 years.  Pentecost has come and yet I seem blocked off from experiencing it.  I can’t seem to find an outpost of God calling together a people to discern where we are being led,  and to help one another resist the addictions to the culture and its attempts to keep us happy, spending consumers of goods and services.