How to Build A Community
Posted by Jonathan
We're working hard to build a community here at GreenJoyment.
Here are some of the ways we all can build communities in our local areas.
Turn off your TV
Leave your house
Know your neighbors
Look up when you are walking
Greet people
Sit on your 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 pot lucks
Honor 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 your goods
Start a tradition
Ask a question
Hire young people for odd jobs
Organize a block party
Bake extra and share
Ask for help when you need it
Open your shades
Sing together
Share your skills
Listen before you react to anger
Mediate a conflict
Seek to understand
Learn from new and uncomfortable angles.
Know that no one is silent though many are not heard. Work to change this.
Participate in book clubs
Lend/give someone your shoes
Share music
Offer to baby sit
Have people over for tea
Talk to strangers (you're an adult now)
Throw a bon voyage party
Fix a computer
Edit your neighbors' papers
Buy airline tickets and/or travel with friends
Go to church together
Smile, especially when you don't want to
(Based on a post at http://travelwithoastler.com/)
What else would you add to this list?
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The real problem with the world is simply over-population! In Africa, for example, despite aids, populations grow each day. And I once flew over Africa at night - I have never seen so many fires burning! Look at all the pictures you see in the West about Africa and all you see are children starving.
People are sort of all freaked out these days. Years ago we had an Intentional Community, we worked with people in trouble, trying to turn things around for them. These days, doing most things on the list that you have, might get you locked up, inspected, put on Watch out lists. People are very frightened these days. Everyone could be a Terrorist. Back in time I remember there used to be Parks and Staffed Community Centres where you could play games with other people. Go for a Swing. If you fell off, the swing, you dusted yourself off and perhaps did it another day. These days they go to Lawyers, and sue the Park for Six or Seven Million, if Johnny falls off the swing.
I've done Volunteer work, at community Suppers, even went to one today. The Tooney Lunch they call it. Anyone can go for lunch for a Canadian Two Dollar Coin. Volunteers prepare the meals, and Stores donate the food. Putting it all together has a few with all the fear, that is around. Somehow we need to work on that, a bit.
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veryone learns to love each other in spite of each others diffrences belive it or not we are all the same when one hurts or feels pain or distress it will affect us all