If individuals ways you can help build global community are a bit too scary, here are ways you can build community in your own life and on your block.

Turn off your TV
Know your neighbors
Look up when you are walking
Greet people
Sit on your stoop
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

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Cooper has just been diagnosed with diabetes and is dealing with severe back pain.

Pain and more pain
I haven’t slept more than three hours a night since Thursday. Am in excruciating pain right now and have some meetings and travel today. Pills making me sicker than I have been in a while and I can’t feel my left hand. Keep me in your prayers.