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Category Archives: Building Community
Roving Notes (pt. 3): “Now that I know where you are”
Saturday, Sept 21 Walked for 30 minutes with my neighbor LaWanda today… so nice to just chat and get to know each other while achieving both our goals to get more exercise each day! Before she came to meet me … Continue reading
Roving Notes (pt. 2): “Scavenger Reunion, Porch-Time, and Spiderman”
Friday, Sept 20 I woke up determined to walk some more and see who I could meet. But first I wanted to clean the floors… I didn’t know who I might go see and was going over ideas in … Continue reading
“Just Do It” Roving Notes (pt.1)
Ever since the big epiphany, after poking me from various angles, finally sank in last week that, regarding my writing and my neighborhood roving, the answer to my endless “analysis paralysis” was to “just do it,” I’ve been kicking … Continue reading
C4C (2.2): Power & Patriarchy in the Community-Building Movement, continued
[This is a continuation of C4C (2.1)] While the issue just brought so jarringly to the table had definitely shifted the room’s energy that day, it wasn’t the first time the broad issue of power and equality had come up. … Continue reading
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C4C (2.1): Power & Patriarchy in the Community-Building Movement
There’s a list of solid reasons why the blog I’m about to write is just now being born, despite ts presence in my craw for over a week. Among them—sickness, great developments in my neighborhood, house duties and other jobs. … Continue reading
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Tagged Cincinnati, citizenship, class, community, dialogue, empowerment, equality, feminism, gender, inclusion, inequality, local-living, patriarchy, Peter Block, power, race, women
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C4C: Harnessing & Harvesting “the ignorant perfection of ordinary people” (Pt. 1)
Last week, I drove with friends and colleagues from Indianapolis to Cincinnati to attend the three-day Connecting for Communities (“C4C”) conference, “a powerful gathering of master and apprentice change agents and social entrepreneurs across sectors and communities, from around the world.” … Continue reading
“From Below, Not Above” (a block story)
Home home home… Just a few hours ago, I arrived home from the Connecting for Community gathering in Cincinnati. I’m still buzzing with gratitude for the richness of soul, experience, insight, passion, courage and both raw and polished talent I encountered in … Continue reading
ABCD Workshop in Sarasota!
I’m just now coming off the buzz of an incredible workshop I had the pleasure of co-hosting together with ABCD Institute Faculty member Dan Duncan and Mary Butler, a local ABCD Neighborhood Organizer and my good friend. Here is the … Continue reading
Neighbors Build Community in the Village of the Arts
[originally published on the neighbor-created site, villageconnectors.com) Last week, a small group of neighbors in the Village of the Arts invited the wider community to join their conversation about how to improve their community. Here is the story of that gathering. … Continue reading