One of our close neighbors has recently taken up both home brewing and charcuterie.

Accordingly, our intentional community of eight households is invited over for a social gathering featuring top-notch beer and perfectly spiced smoked sausages about once a month....which, believe me, has done wonders for making us all get along better when it's time for a community meeting or community project.

Another neighbor had the community over to dinner twice during our recent three-day power (and water) outage...we all brought along whatever in our nonfunctional fridges needed to be eaten; it was cooked on the grill or in the gas oven; we drank wine and drummed the dark away. Brilliant.

Cheers,
Claire