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 %BOUNDARIES DRAWN ENFORCE SELF OTHER EVIL RELATION+980110                                       
  %SIN ALIENATION IMPORTANT PRIORITIES BETWEEN GOOD+980110                                        
   %ETHICS MORALITY SEXUAL FINANCIAL TERRITORY FAIL+980110
     %HONESTY INTEGRITY DIALOGUE COMMUNICATION TALK 980110                                                                
                                                                                                                               
     Boundaries,   and  dealing  with   boundaries,   play                                                                     
important roles in our lives --- in a variety of ways:      
                                                                                                                               
     1.  Where  boundaries are draw ---  between what  and                                                                     
what else --- within what domains of realities?                             
                                                                                                                               
         Boundaries are drawn having to do with:                                                                               
         a.  Pieces of geographic territory in one, two,                                                                       
             three or more dimensional spaces.                                                                                 
         b.  Pieces of intellectual territory.                                                                                 
         c.  Who may associate with whom, and at what                                                                          
             levels of intimacy, in what kinds of                     
             intimacy.                     
         d.  Management of objects and other possessions.                                                        
         e.  Management of perceptions of realities.        
         f.  What possibilities MAY be recognized,                                                                             
             articulated and communicated through accurate                                
             descriptions.                                                                                                     
         g.  What possibilities may NOT be recognized,                                                                         
             articulated and communicated through accurate                                
             descriptions.                                                                                                     
         h.  How many possibilities are to permitted in               
             considering various situations, one, two,                                                                         
             three or more.                                                                                                    
         i.  What thoughts, emotions, desires, attitudes,          
             expressions, perceptions should be required,        
             tolerated, or repressed.                                                                                          
         j.  What kinds of dissent, creativity, and non-                         
             conformity should be required, tolerated, or            
             repressed.                                                                                                        
         k.  Personal space around bodies and living                                                                 
             spaces.                                                                                                           
         l.  Privacy about personal aspect of living and                                                                 
             being true to self and others.                        
                                                                                                                               
     2.  How boundaries are drawn --- very narrowly-and-                                               
         sharp;   and/or broadly and fuzzily?                                                                                  
                                                                                                                               
     3.  Who draws boundaries and for whom; for self, for                                                      
         others?                                                               
                                                                                                                               
     4.  Who enforces boundaries, and upon whom; self,                                                      
         other, others?   In what ways enforced?      
                                                                                                                               
     5.  What are the prices which people are willing to                                                                    
         see paid and sacrifices made for the enforcement                                                                      
         of boundaries?  In time, money, energy,                                                                               
         resources, alienation, misunderstanding,                                        
         resentment, creativity, integrity, etc?                         
                                                                                                                               
     Whether  we  have healthy communities  or  un-healthy                                                                
communities  depends  greatly  upon  how  our  communities                                               
respond to the above questions and dilemmas.                                  
                                                                                                                               
                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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