How to build community

From the Ooze Blog This also hangs on our fridge.

How To Build Community

# Turn off your TV
# 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
# 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.