Universe Changers: July topic
Community
Where do you find community in your life?
How do you make community? How do you build and sustain it? What does it look like? What does it do for you? How is it a window into your life?
How do we see our community of Universe Changers? How would we like to see it?
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Highlights from the Crafty Planet conversation:
-A community starts making small changes and then it ends up with a huge result. If we want to take care of the environment, for example, we need community—social pressure or incentive. Drug abuse negatively affects community.
-When there are renters next to multimillion dollar homeowners the renters don’t get the respect they deserve. But having many different classes in the same neighborhood is a good thing that keeps people from becoming to insular.
-The best thing you can for your community, everyone agreed, was to get to know your neighbors. It solves so many problems. It makes new people feel welcome. The difficulty with this was that everyone seemed to be going somewhere instead of being somewhere. Too much of a transitory nature to our lives to have community in the ways we used to have it.
-Something was said about how with cell phones people don’t remember numbers, birthdays, important things for relationships anymore. It’s a new generational problem.
-We talked about how online communities are blossoming.
--posting on behalf of Haden Bowie, Minnesota Women's Press
Highlights from the Brewberry's conversation:
-Community is an act of creation and does take energy. To have healthy community, we need to take care of ourselves in order to give.
-Sometimes when one needs community most, it is hardest to find. If one is already part of a community, it can be a place of support during crisis.
-As a land of immigrants, Europeans set upon destroying Native communities in order to establish their own.
-A sense of belonging is important to feeling part of a community.
-Our lives are so busy and transient, it can be difficult to make connections.
-Working together on a common goal, sharing resources, common reasons to get together, proximity are all ways we build community. In community, we don't all necessarily know too much about each other but we still look out for each other.
-Faith communities can be difficult to feel like you belong if you are single. Suggestion was made that women's groups in faith communities may be more inclusive.
-Community is intentional coming together.
-Food for thought: At what point does ones responsibility to a particular community end?
-We noted that in community sometimes we are more like flowers, taking root, adding beauty, gaining nourishment, relying on the stability of the community. Othertimes we are more like flowers, pollinating community by adding our energy, adding beauty to the community by what may be brief landings more than ongoing stability. Both are important, we are at different places/stages in different communities.
-Communities can serve certain times in our lives which doesn't make them less meaningful. (E.g. parenting communities, school communities, special interest groups, action groups...)
-There is a dynamic nature to community, exciting, changing, how much we gain and are changed by commmunity.
-Wanting to create community with other wise women and talk about what really matters.
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