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Narrated by Marie T. Russell.
InnerSelf's Daily Inspiration
June 8, 2023
The focus for today is:
By joining together, we manifest our care for
the children, our neighbors, the earth, and our democracy.
Our institutions can only offer service, not care. Care can’t be provided, managed, or purchased from systems. Care is the freely given commitment from the heart of one to another.
As neighbors, we care for one another, for our children, for our elders. And this care is the basic power of a community of citizens. It’s what enables our neighborhood’s future.
The new connections and relationships we create locally further build community: In joining together, we manifest our care for the children, our neighbors, the earth, and our democracy.
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Today's inspiration was adapted from the InnerSelf.com article:
7 Ways to Change the World and Our Communities
Written by Cormac Russell and John McKnight.
Read the complete article here.
This is Marie T. Russell, publisher of InnerSelf.com, wishing you a day of joining with others to manifest care for the children, our neighbors, the earth, and our democracy (today and every day).
Comment from Marie: John Donne, in the 17th century wrote a poem and you are surely familiar with the first line: "No man is an island". And he ended that poem with this: "Any man’s death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee." We are all One -- connected -- and what hurts one hurts the other. Conversely what heals one, heals the other. Let us care for each other: humanity, as well.as all life on and in the planet.
Our focus for today: By joining with others, we manifest our care for the children, our neighbors, the earth, and our democracy.
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The Connected Community: Discovering the Health, Wealth, and Power of Neighborhoods
by Cormac Russell and John McKnight
We may be living longer, but people are more socially isolated than ever before. As a result, we are hindered both mentally and physically, and many of us are looking for something concrete we can do to address problems like poverty, racism, and climate change. What if solutions could be found on your very doorstep or just two door knocks away?
Learn to take action on what you already deeply know—that neighborliness is not just a nice-to-have personal characteristic but essential to living a fruitful life and a powerful amplifier of community change and renewal.
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About the Authors
Cormac Russell is a veteran practitioner of asset-based community development (ABCD) with experience in 36 countries. A social explorer, author, speaker, and managing director of Nurture Development, he sits on the faculty of the Asset-Based Community Development (ABCD) Institute, at DePaul University, Chicago.
John McKnight is cofounder of the Asset-Based Community Development Institute, a Senior Associate at the Kettering Foundation, and sits on the board of a number of community development organizations. Cormac Russell and John McKnight coauthored The Connected Community: Discovering the Health, Wealth, and Power of Neighborhoods.
