At Linwood Park, where Patty sometimes organized athletics for the kids, Connie sat by herself on the grass, unbored, her hands fashioning a clover-flower ring for nobody, and let the minutes stream past her until Joey took his turn at bat or moved the soccer ball down the field and quickened her interest momentarily.

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And sometimes the organized chaos was more chaos than organization, as with the infamous 1962 concert fiasco at New York's Town Hall, when an overlarge and unrehearsed ensemble attempted to present underprepared arrangements.

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In other areas, there was a sense of organized chaos that sometimes veered more toward disorder.

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The mixture of connectivity, open information, and the ability to build communities, share opinions and get organized is a creative and sometimes disruptive mix.

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My mother, whose parents were Baptist and Methodist, grew up with a certain skepticism about organized religion, and she usually only took me to church on Easter and Christmas -- sometimes.

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Organized sports come with fees, time commitments and other related costs, but the recreation leagues are sometimes run by community centers and public schools, and are reasonably priced.

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