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When community rituals naturally start to fade but some people want to maintain them

A few of us in our neighborhood started walking together in the mornings during the pandemic and it became this really important ritual, but now people's schedules have changed and some of us want to keep it going while others seem to have moved on. There's this awkward thing where we don't know if we should let it fade or try to make it work with whoever's still interested.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

A group is facing the natural entropy of shared practices and the grief of letting meaningful things go.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Neighborhood and place-based belonging?”

If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.