How To Build Community
A friend of mine gave me a beautiful poster purchased from Ten Thousand Villages, a unique store featuring fair trade items from around the world.
In light of families truly focusing on how to raise happy, healthy children in safe and nurturing environments, I would like to share my poster with you. It inspires me.
Ten Thousand Villages
Turn off your TV. Leave your house
Know your neighbors
Look up when you are walking
Greet people. Sit on your porch
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
Dance in the street
Talk to the mail carrier
Listen to the birds. Put up a swing
Help carry something heavy
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.
Turn up the music. Turn down the music.
Listen before your react to anger. Mediate a conflict.
Seek to understand. Learn from new angles.
Know that no one is silent though many are not heard.
Work to change.
“It’s the simple things in life that are the most extraordinary. “
Paulo Coelho