How to Build a Community
- Turn off your TV
- Leave your house
- Know your neighbors
- Greet people
- Look up when you’re walking
- Fly your flag with pride
- Ask for help when you need it
- Sit on your stoop
- Plant flowers
- Use your library
- Hire young people for odd jobs
- Play together
- Buy from local merchants
- Share what you have
- Help a lost dog
- Take children to the park
- Honor elders
- Support neighborhood schools
- Have potlucks
- Fix it even if you didn’t break it
- Help carry something heavy
- Garden together
- Pick up litter
- Read stories aloud
- Dance in the street
- Talk to the mail carrier
- Listen to the birds
- Barter for your goods
- Start a tradition
- Ask a question
- Organize a block party
- Bake extra and share
- 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
- Mediate a conflict
- Seek to understand
- Learn from new and uncomfortable angles
- Seek to hear the unheard
“Get involved in life”