Aspiring Good Neighbors
Exploring what it means to live and care for one another in community.
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I’m Always Late to Sharing, Pt. 1: Places People Change (opens the original)
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Most of what I actually do in my own neighborhood is pretty small. It’s interpersonal to a large extent. I am involved in our local schools, and I am on councils when I have the bandwidth. I try to attend public city and community meetings. I am alert and aware of our community’s needs, and I work to meet them, but I also advocate for them when I know it will take more than just me. I am involved with non-profits in the area working on larger scales to meet critical needs. Again, it’s mostly int
The Island (opens the original)
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My father died the evening of Friday, November 13, 2020.Earlier that morning I was already crying. I was on bike ride, listening to Phoebe Bridgers’ Punisher on repeat.At that point I still had no clue my dad would die later that day. He was not well, to be very sure, but even as he was approaching two weeks in the ICU, we were all still confident he would pull through.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!F1WC!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressi
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