A good friend described the impact of busyness on our neighborhoods brilliantly: 'Being neighborly used to mean visiting people. Now being nice to your neighbors means not bothering them.' People’s lives are shaped by how busy they are. Lives also are shaped by the respect and deference that is given to busyness—especially when it is valued above connection and community. If people are considerate, they assume that their neighbors are very busy and so try not to intrude on them. Dropping by is no longer neighborly. It is simply rude. (Jacqueline Olds, Richard S. Schwartz)
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