When community works — when you are among people who know you, who are glad you are there, who would notice your absence — the feeling is one of the most uncomplicated goods a human life can hold. It is not always dramatic; it often lives in the ordinary moments of shared laughter, of being passed the food without asking, of being called by your name. This is what we are trying to describe when we say we want to belong.
Each step builds on the last.