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It links these observations to rural Nebraska leadership challenges, including regional cooperation, infrastructure strain, housing limits, service gaps, aging needs, volatile jobs, and youth exodus, emphasizing the role of dialogue.","James Leighter, Ph.D.\nCreighton University\nAssociate Professor, Communication Studies\nDirector, Sustainability Studies\nBelow I have re-crafted two short unpublished essays that capture the essence of my connection with environmental concerns as a scholar, practitioner and teacher. In my preparation for this assignment, I wanted to capture the themes of these pieces to share with the group but found myself simply wanting to share large portions of what I had already written. So, here they are. These reflective pieces include themes that I find myself expressing to students and trying to incorporate into my pedagogy. I am still working to connect the sentiments of the pieces to Jesuit pedagogy concepts and practices but am initially inclined to suggest these have something to do with magis, if I am to take magis to mean not excellence but committed discernment in the search the greater good among options and perspectives. I will take guidance and council from this group.\nFile from the Field. Broken Bow, Nebraska. March 12, 2010\nUpon entering the City Café in Broken Bow, Nebraska during the rush of the lunch hour, I scan for a place to sit as there are few unoccupied seats left. As I make my way through the aisles overflowing with customers, those already seated look up from their “Cheeseburger w/ Chili,” the special of the day, to look me in the eye. I notice first each individual gaze and then the length of each gaze. Each customer of the City Café that I pass holds eyes on me for a moment or two after I look back, a little longer than is comfortable to me.\nOnce seated at the counter on a bar stool, I have a clear view of the kitchen. Neither the woman doing the cooking, nor the woman doing the dishwashing is watching their work. Instead, they each gaze expectantly, almost without interruption, toward the front door. If they happen to be checking on the grill or moving a stack of plates when the bell jingles indicating someone new has arrived, their gaze comes up immediately to see who has entered. How these women grill food and wash dishes without burning or hurting themselves is something I marvel at throughout lunch.\nNot thirty minutes earlier, I had completed a day and a half workshop with several residents of the Broken Bow community including, among others, the mayor, the city administrator, the director of the library, the program manager of the local radio station and the editor of the local paper. I work with the Joslyn Institute for Sustainable Communities as a facilitator of the Nebraska Sustainability Leadership Workshops. Doing so has allowed me to an opportunity to travel to several rural communities in Nebraska and hear concerns from the perspective of local leadership. Every small town in rural Nebraska is feeling some level of hardship, or so the leaders of the towns say. Without exception, topics of talk at these workshops have included depleted downtown buildings and infrastructure, limited and increasingly poor housing, lack of essential services, an aging population with special unmet needs, critically volatile job markets due to a dependence on a small number of industries, and the exodus of young people from rural communities to urban cities. The latter of these seems to be one meaningful correlate to the well-being of small towns in Nebraska.\nOne of the strategies being employed in rural Nebraska communities for dealing with these concerns is “regional cooperation.” As the Mayor of Broken Bow put it, he would like Broken Bow to be a “regional hub” of activity: A vibrant market place and community complete with services, entertainment and a unique identity. 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