Stories About Community – #1 with M
The following is M’s story. It’s about community; her experience and reflections. If I say community, what does that make you think about? Then I’m reminded of the first time I ran a marathon. It was in the early 2000s, I was 19 and me and my best friend had…
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Three Aspects of Community – a tiny book guide
Life is our best teacher. With bruised hearts we keep moving forward, collecting experiences that will hopefully provide a growing ability to navigate. Learning by doing, right? Books are wonderful allies on this journey; a way to recoup on the couch while forming a strategy for our next venture into…
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COPENHAGEN: Wondering Where to Find a Pop-Up Community? Go Hit the Dancefloor!
If you’re new in town or simply visiting and have the urge to connect with the locals, or you’re looking for the antidote to a long and lonely winter on the couch, go find a dancefloor! IMAGINE THIS: the sun sets at 4 PM and your body is probably telling…
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MARSEILLE: A Community of Human Connection – and Dog Poop.
If you have ever walked the streets of Marseille, I’m sure you must have noticed the dog poops so generously sprinkled on the sidewalks. Chances are you have even stepped in one, subsequently smearing it on the pavement for the next few meters trying to get rid of it. Am…
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Talk To The Person Next To You
We might not come from the same place and maybe we believe that we couldn’t possibly have anything to talk about, but we do share this experience of being alive. Maybe that’s all the common ground we need. It was a spring morning in the Bywater neighborhood in New Orleans.…
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Another New Beginning
A year and a half ago, I quit my job. I felt burned out and disillusioned and was just fed up with inadequacy. My own, my boss’, the system’s. Inadequacy and incompetence. It kept echoing in my mind; we’re not doing enough and we’re not good enough at what we’re…
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Working with community challenges me, shows me my shadows, reminds me of who I am..
The Billion Circles Project 