by Pam Rempe | Jan 14, 2025 | Getting to Know Your Neighbors, Imagine the Possibilities, Pursue the Common Good
During the summer of 2024, my wife attended a local dance conference hosted in our community. She met a few people there who wanted to make dance more accessible for all. She also met a local dance and Pilates instructor who hosts free classes at our community center....
by Pam Rempe | Jan 6, 2025 | Getting to Know Your Neighbors, Imagine the Possibilities, Pursue the Common Good
Happy New Year! Every year around this time, life is filled with hope and expectation. The possibilities seem endless. We’ve filled out vision boards, declared our resolutions, and committed that this year will be different than last! I’m rooting for you!...
by Pam Rempe | Dec 30, 2024 | Getting to Know Your Neighbors, Neighborhood Well-being, Pursue the Common Good
In talking about how to be a hopeful neighbor in these modern days, it can be easy to get bogged down in the greater turmoil of the world: A global pandemic! Raging wildfires! Starving children! Terrorists! It’s enough to make any sane person want to curl up in a ball...
by Pam Rempe | Dec 3, 2024 | Neighborhood Well-being, Pursue the Common Good
Less than four decades ago, the term “third space” was introduced into American culture and the English lexicon. “Third space” rhetoric emerged to describe the social gathering spaces that exist outside of home and the workplace, such as libraries, malls, schools,...
by Pam Rempe | Nov 19, 2024 | Imagine the Possibilities, Pursue the Common Good
Part 3 of 3: November is National Homelessness Awareness month. To honor our unhoused neighbors during this month we will be featuring a three-part series on homelessness by DJ Johnsen. If you happened to read either (or both!) of the pieces I wrote before this, thank...
by Pam Rempe | Nov 13, 2024 | Imagine the Possibilities, Pursue the Common Good
My alarm went off and I woke to find myself drenched in sweat. There are certainly hotter places to be in the middle of summer than New York City, but considering we never sleep without the A/C running, I knew something had gone amiss. Sure enough, I got out of bed to...
