So how do we actually do this community thing?
FAMILY AND COMMUNITY can and should be where we find belonging, care, and love. But they are often also the source of our deepest wounds and our greatest damage. So, it is not without pause that I praise and celebrate family and community as safety and salvation.
Mia Birdsong • How We Show Up: Reclaiming Family, Friendship, and Community
On Finding Your People:
I’m told I have an unusual talent for finding wonderful people. Below is my strategy for having a rich social life in any large city
Disclaimer: This will require you acting in a way that is not normal. You may need to decide whether you want to be normal yet lonely or unusual yet connected
0. Treat it as a second job.
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That’s the existential question for humanity in the 21st century. That’s the challenge in front of all of us. Will you shoulder the risk of pursuing real human connection, as hard and intimidating and discouraging as that can be? Or will you hide in your room forever, comforted by fast food and porn and opiates and therapy and TikTok, risking nothi
... See moreFreddie DeBoer • You Are You. We Live Here. This Is Now.
What if the opposite of loneliness is finding ourselves together? What if friends aren’t threats or competitors but gifts?
James K. A. Smith • On the Road with Saint Augustine: A Real-World Spirituality for Restless Hearts
“Once upon a time people were born into communities and had to find their individuality. Today people are born individuals and have to find their communities.”