Word: neighborly
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Lisa Evans, a neighbor who describes herself as “the most vocal” opponent to the plan, fears that the arboretum’s new building on Weld Hill will ruin her beautiful view...
...neighbor is now retired, but her house has been this way for years, and she has inspired much anger among my other neighbors on our block, as well as a few petty crimes—years back one of her dogs was poisoned...
...neighbor is just a woman who is severely out of context. She’s an immigrant from rural eastern Europe who moved to my town with the intention of retiring to a house in “the country”—in an open midwestern space where her dogs and trees and plants would be spread over several acres. She even bought an RV when she retired, made an attempt to sell her house and build her country life elsewhere, but has yet to actually do so. Instead, she stays next door, creating her own little...
...goals are, to varying degrees, at odds with one another. Each of us arrives with our own mental image of what our lives here should look like. Some have an easy time of matching their ideals with the reality of Harvard life. Others may be more like my neighbor, trying to build something that looks radically different from their surroundings...
...classes there are, there are still more people, each of whom is a unique and slightly insane combination of hopes, irrational fears, valid fears, goals and contradictions. As a result, either our environments or our goals must be compromised—or both, as in the case of my neighbor, who has done rather severe damage to her house, but has not created anything terribly similar to a countryside life...