Finding Care in the Collective: Is Individualism Weighting You Down?

Finding Care in the Collective: Is Individualism Weighting You Down?

It was 7:30 a.m. on a brisk morning in the Andean mountains of Bolivia back in 2013. I was immersed in my first year of life as a Franciscan lay missioner and one of the only foreigners participating in a overnight workshop on organic agriculture and forest farming. That day we were invited to visit…