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May 1 talk to your neighbors

By Becky McCray

On Thursday May 1, Barbara K. Baker proposes we revive some real world connecting. Get out and chat with a neighbor.

Maybe even deliver a little May Day basket. Do you remember those little baskets of flowers you would leave on a neighbor’s door? Just exactly the kind of thing that used to be a hallmark of small towns, now nearly gone.

Even as we build stronger connections in the online world, we are losing connections in our own physical community. Share some social love with your real world neighbors.

Care to help promote? Twitter it. Change your Facebook or BrightKite status. Blog it. Utterz it. Take a picture and share it in Barbara’s May Day Flickr group.

Remember: it’s all about visiting with a neighbor. You’re from a small town. You can do that.

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Becky started Small Biz Survival in 2006 to share rural business and community building stories and ideas with other small town business people. She and her husband have a small cattle ranch and are lifelong entrepreneurs. Becky is an international speaker on small business and rural topics.
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April 29, 2008 Filed Under: community, rural Tagged With: Climate, events

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  1. BarbaraKB says

    April 30, 2008 at 12:29 am

    Thanks, Becky. Folks can also join the Facebook event page and post pictures and video there:

    http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=12992288917

    The goal is to meet and chat with your neighbors. Be social. Get to know the people in your neighborhood on May 1st.

  2. Becky McCray says

    April 30, 2008 at 4:19 am

    Our Friend Neenz is celebrating Lei Day Around the World, a local Hawaiian tradition along the same lines. See her story at http://www.faleafine.com/?p=107

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    […] to talk more about Placemaking later. But for right now, step outside. Organize a picnic. Make May Day baskets for your neighbors’ doors. Find a way to do something to push your community on a better […]

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