Build Social Capital

Of all the steps I've taken, I consider building my community the most important element of my resilience.  Whatever the future holds, I'd rather face it surrounded by people I respect, admire, and love in my local community, people I trust and I know I can count on.  That's a form of true wealth.

As social creatures, with all of our gifts and flaws, strengths an weaknesses, the simple truth is we need each other.  We rely on people in our community to do the things for us that we can't do well ourselves, but the biggest need is for the emotional nourishment that we receive from each other.

Social capital is a very real and highly valuable commodity, one that takes time to build no matter how motivated or gifted one may be at forming connections, so the time is now to get to work building these important relationships.