What are the conditions we have to get into to learn how to make our community feel more like home? 

Over the last six episodes of Returning Home, I’ve been exploring six simple ways communities can learn about exactly that: 

Noticing Place

Finding Belonging

Listening for Local Story

Sensing What's Changing

Opening to Possibility

Acting and Becoming

This episode is a pause to look back, but mostly to look ahead, toward turning these practices into small, welcoming adventures people can try where they live.

I share a surprising lesson from a story I stumbled upon recently. It helped me see Returning Home from a new angle.

It’s easy to think the future of our places is mostly in the hands of institutions, organizations, and folks with official titles. But a place is a living field of changing conditions, and too much of our response is divided across separate organizations, categories, and responsibilities.

Maybe that means more of us need small ways to get out there, notice what is happening, find each other, connect things up, and practice moving into the future together.

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