This book helped me understand why I feel so much joy and gratitude whenever I go to a clothing swap or trade baked goods with my friends. This is how we are meant to cultivate relationships, not through transactional interactions. Sometimes people get confused when I tell them that I would never venmo request a friend of mine for buying them a coffee, and it's because I care more about building bonds of love and gratitude in our relationship than five dollars.

I saw someone comment a gif on someones post and I tried to enter one and it said I couldn't. Anyone know how to do that? Or if its only on the web/app version maybe?

“…reclaim ourselves as neighbors…”

This is something I think about a lot. I think most people live so individually now: far from family, ordering things from a website instead of a physical store, thinking that community can be found in echo chambers online instead of the people who live on your street.

Since having a kid I’ve been making a really big effort to be a better neighbor! Now we have several people in our neighborhood (and the guy who picks up our garbage) who my kid & I regularly make cookies for. I know that’s on a really small scale, but neighborliness has definitely spilled over into my everyday interactions with the world at large. We’re all neighbors on this pale blue dot, baby!!!!!

hi! i just wasn’t sure if anyone knew why there are only four books this winter readalong? my app also shows that to get the sparkly badge you have to read “all 5” but i only see 4. wasn’t sure if it was a bug on my end or not and wanted to ask just to make sure i wasn’t missing anything!