In search of a lost place
"So many years, so many changes, with Fortuna wending through them like Theseus' thread."
That's what I wrote back in February when Cafe La Fortuna closed its doors for the last time. Ten months later, I still regularly find myself about to suggest another trip uptown for coffee and community, only to remember that it is gone. Today, it's on my mind because Newsday has posted a nice commemorative photo gallery.
Every so often I hear a sincere nonprofiteer going on about how for-profits are corrosive while nonprofits propagate social values. At times like that I think about Fortuna . . . and the contractor who saw his work on homes as a way to build community . . and the auto mechanic whose passion for learning--and personal library--rivaled that of the professors and grad students who flocked to chat with him at his garage.
Social values are not a zero sum game. By recognizing the organic connections among all forms of personal identity, we don't diminish nonprofits--rather, we come closer to understanding what they mean.0 TrackBacks
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