"Things Grow Organically"

...Father Jimmy Tomkins said, "People must get down to rock bottom before they have the vision and the desperate courage to work along these lines and to overcome their natural individualism."

Community--that was the social answer to the long loneliness. That was one of the attractions of religious life and why couldn't lay people share it? Not just the basic community of the family, but also a community of families, with a combination of private and communal property. This could be a farming commune, a continuation of the agronomic university Peter spoke of as a part of the program we were to work for. Peter had vision and we all delighted in these ideas.

"But not a five-year plan," he would say. He did not believe in blueprints or a planned economy. Things grow organically--Dorothy Day, The Long Loneliness, pg. 224

This just irresistibly reminds me of Chesterton and also of this great series.