Meeting new people helps make community

It wasn’t too long ago that most American mainstreet communities looked like this. Photo by Donald Giannatti on Unsplash.

Meeting new people is always something you remember. You remember it because it’s the day that the conversation was about you, about the other person, about the things you have in common, and about your differences.

These new encounters happen in all kinds of places, sometimes planned and sometimes in surprise settings. There are the organized setups for meeting new people, like the one the…