Intentional community-building is one of the more ambitious and humbling projects available to a person — it requires holding a vision of what belonging could look like while doing the unglamorous work of logistics, conflict, and repeated disappointment. The communities that work are almost never the ones built on ideology alone; they survive because someone kept showing up to the practical work of it. Start smaller than you think you need to. Stay longer than you planned.
Each step builds on the last.