How to Build Community...

I saw this here, and love it.  I hope to purchase my own copy of it very soon.  I think I need to do a lot more of the things listed here.  I am going to start practicing more of these because one of my biggest complaints about the area I live in is that everyone seems so closed up in their own homes, no one waves when you pass them on the street and the only reason I know almost any of my neighbors is because my kids play with their kids out in the street.  As Rita (my MIL) always says, "We should just be more like children.  Just walk up to someone and ask 'Will you be my friend?'"  Such wisdom.