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4 days agoCan I Shame My Neighbor Into Cleaning Up After His Dog?
Public shaming may not be the best solution for neighbors who fail to clean up after their dogs.
How did you build your village? We asked NPR's audience this question in our newsletter in January, inspired by Life Kit's interview with Priya Parker on how to create community. The key is to start imagining the community you might want to live in and then take steps to make that a reality, says Parker, a conflict resolution facilitator and the author of The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters. Many of our readers have done just that.
I was nervous, that first day on the job, walking up to Edith Macefield's house. I'd heard so much already. Developers had purchased most of a city block in Seattle, Washington, to build a office and shopping area. They'd gotten every inch of the property they wanted except for this one little ramshackle house. They'd even offered her $1 million for it, and she had declined. So they had had to build around it.