Week 15: "The Long Table" — Community and Belonging

1.Niequist has written extensively about tables — meals, community, gathering. What does a long table signify to you? What kind of community does the image evoke — and does it describe your actual experience of belonging, or something you long for?

2.She distinguishes between networking — being useful to people and having them be useful to you — and genuine community, where people know and are known. Which dynamic is more present in your closest relationships? Which one do you hunger for?

3.Niequist talks about the way that her shift toward presence also transformed her friendships — that when she stopped performing, she started actually connecting. Have you experienced that kind of shift in a relationship? What made it possible?