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When community groups lose their original purpose

Our neighborhood group formed during COVID to help each other out and it was amazing then but now it feels like we're just a complaint forum about city politics and dog poop. Some of us want to get back to actually supporting each other but others seem more interested in being angry together.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

A group is struggling between the comfort of shared grievances and the vulnerability of shared care.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Memento mori across traditions?”

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