four distinct practices indi-viduals enact to treat each other “as neighbors”: friendly recognition, parochial help-fulness, proactive intervention, and embracing and contest ing diversity.

Everyone seems to love lists these days, so here are some thoughts on how we can make small investments into interdependence:

1. Do It in Community (duh)

You don’t have to do any of this alone. In fact, you shouldn’t . Find one person—a housemate, a neighbor, a friend—who’s willing to explore these ideas with you.

Community is easier (and more fun)

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We all, however, have contact with people. We can all find ways to resist the isolating, dehumanising tides of our time attempting to turn us into machines. We can all figure out a few small ways to be together more, in our bodies, to call a friend to ask for help, to offer a place to sleep or a cup of tea. These things seem soft, naive even but... See more