How to Build a Community
- Turn off the TV
- Know your neighbor
- Look up when you are walking
- Greet people
- Sit on the stoop
- Plant flowers
- Use your library
- Play together
- Buy from local merchants
- Share what you have
- Help a lost dog
- Take children to the park
- Garden together
- Support neighborhood schools
- Fix it even if you didn't break it
- Have block parties
- Honor your elders
- Pick up litter
- Read stories aloud
- Dance in the street
- Talk to the mail carrier
- Listen to the birds
- Put up a swing
- Help carry something heavy
- Barter for goods
- Start a tradition
- Ask a question
- Hire young people for odd jobs
- Have a pot-luck
- Bake extra and share
- Ask for help when you need it
- Open your shades
- Sing together
- Share your skills
- Take back the night
- Turn up the music
- Turn down the music
- Listen before you react to anger
- Seek to understand
- Listen from new and uncomfortable angles
- Know that no one is silent, but many are not heard