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Joy to the (Civic) World
Plus, what we lose when optimizing community, the adulthood crisis, and loneliness as the tip of the iceberg
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Love's braided dance
Plus, our nation of homebodies, how individualism leads to conformity, and government's role in strengthening associational life
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Good things come in twos
Two essays on the class divide in civic life, two pieces on community for parents, two new podcasts, and two ways policy can promote neighborhood…
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Kids these days
On “play streets,” meaning-making and child-rearing, and our “forgotten kin”
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Cutting off your family? Grief culture? Buying back the block?
Highlighting the community content you may have missed between all of the U.S. political headlines.
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Lockdown nostalgia? Becoming better men? Mapping social trust?
A post-holiday week backlog of listens, reads, and resources
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A Surgeon General’s warning? A Trust for Civic Life? Peak Loneliness?
A hot week for reads!
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Taking a trip
Are psychedelics escapist drugs or healing medicines? Pseudo-religious cults or embedded religious groups? Yes.
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A Summer Starter Pack: Connection and community in summertime
Exploring Memorial Day remembrance, summer violence interruption, neighborhood heat islands, and the American Exchange Project
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With a little help from [our] friends
Spotlighting the writing, research, and work of Connective Tissue subscribers and friends
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Reconnecting with our own creatureliness and wildness
Discovering our wild nature, what it means to live as creatures, and the connection between the body and the earth — and lots of Wendell Berry
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The Tissue Review - Q1 2024: Reconnecting with our favorite curated lists so far this year
Exploring new reads - and revisiting past ones - on loneliness, spirituality, and education
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