Ever spent time on Google Map’s Street View? I’ve probably spent way too much time on it, but I find it useful, interesting and fun. I use it sometimes to verify an address, check an entry point and look for other details before I visit a location. But sometimes I like to snoop around and see places I’ve never been, or check out an old address where I once lived or frequented to see what’s changed.
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Building community is hard work, and at the end of the day you have to be content with the community you’ve built.
Tuesday evening we had approximately 30 people at our house, including five officers from the local police force and our city council representative. They came for hot dogs, appetizers, a wide variety of cookies and friendly conversation. It was National Night Out, and we’ve hosted the event at our house most of the dozen years we’ve lived here because we have a good corner for gathering. Also, we’ve been the official and lately unofficial leaders of our loosely knit Embree Neighborhood Association.
Continue reading “The Hard Work of Community”Circles of Life
We often marvel at the amazing designs of nature — the intricate geometry of snowflakes and flowers, for example — and sometimes it feels that way about life in general. Events and people can spin around us in circles that connect and overlap, drawing us together in unexpected ways.
I thought about this recently after one of LeAnn’s monthly family Zoom visits with her cousins and her mother, who is the last living of four sisters. I married into the family, of course, and I sit in as often as I can because they’re the type of family that treats me as family and invites me to share parts of my story, which has connections to theirs.
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