For me, community is music, art, and people connecting to share and learn together.

What is the power that brings us together? It’s communicating emotions and stories that change lives—finding ourselves reflected in each other’s experiences with respect and support.

We live in challenging times, but community—people gathering, connecting—remains our essential element. It’s our anchor and our hope.

Community begins with listening: being available and aware of all that surrounds you in the moment.

It’s the neighbor who notices you’ve been quiet lately and shows up with coffee, no agenda, just presence.

It’s found in both the ordinary and the sacred, creating a shared place for fleeting moments that transform into something more lasting, more durable—even unlimited and infinite.

Then comes dedication. Commitment. Showing up and being consistent, insistent, and persistent.

It’s the community garden where hands meet in the soil week after week, strangers becoming friends as they tend something together.

Community requires us to be present, to invest ourselves fully in the collective experience, to be kind to others, to show understanding, and to choose goodwill.

It’s not always easy. Building and maintaining community takes effort, vulnerability, and time. But when we commit to truly seeing and hearing one another, when we create spaces for authentic connection, we build something that transcends individual experience.

Community is both simple and profound—it asks us to show up, to listen, and to care. In return, it offers belonging, meaning, and the reminder that we’re never truly alone.

Thanks – Michael (he, him)

Please share this Daily with your tribes.
This also matters – Community.

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