How to Build a Community

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
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
Know that no one is silent though many are not heard, Work to change this.

What "They" say to do, and what I do are two different things.

ABC's of Growth

Always adding to illusion
Bombarding all our minds
Complication of the commonplace
Dividing the divine

Erase everything you know
Free it from defined
Grasping only leads to loss
Hold on but without pride

Investigate the sacred
Juxtaposed with the profane
Keeping them in balance
Letting go of all the names

Making peace with the unknown
Never seeking so you can find
Opposition met everyday
Provides a way in which to climb

Question what you know and love
Realizing when your wrong
Stabilize at your center
Try not to stray for long

Under any circumstance
Virtue shows the way to be
We never know whats coming next
You'll have to wait and
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