One of our neighbors is hosting a "Little Free Library" (thanks go out to Naralyn Deloach Durbin for starting this) and another is about a half mile away near the village fire station. My wife, Tammy, is a Literacy Coach and I have loved reading since I first learned to read. We both appreciate the idea of books freely available to anyone and have an extensive personal library at home.
If you are unfamiliar with the idea, anyone can host a library. The Library can be mounted permanently to a post. Or in this case, it is mounted to a children's wagon. It is filled with a variety of books, and other people can contribute more books to fill it. It is a simple way of helping improve the neighborhood.
If you don't want to have a library in your front yard, what else can you do? I regularly donate platelets at the local Red Cross. My son has volunteered for a local food pantry. Tammy helps lead the education committee at our local zoo and works to promote literacy though the annual Literacy Marathon.
We all need to make our neighborhoods, cities, states and countries better. We don't need to do a lot. We just need to do something.
What do you do to make your neighborhood a better place?
I could not agree more. As the old say goes it takes a village to raise a child. It also takes everyone in that village supporting each other to keep that village a live and well.
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