This report on how a couple revived “stoop coffee” and sparked a whole series of neighborhood events is the best thing I’ve read all month.
@ablerism As a person concerned with the fraying of the social fabric I am full of admiration; as an introvert I shudder with horror at the thought of something like that happening in my neighborhood.
@ayjay Ha, yeah — I get it. I’m also an introvert. I think it’s telling that this is in the heart of San Francisco; many US neighborhoods have this kind of social glue on a more modest scale, right? Though modest shoring-up is surely needed everywhere…mostly eager to show my students.
@ablerism Sent this to a friend this morning. “A neighborhood pancake party? I think I’d cry,” she said. Said this is her dream 🙂
@ablerism this seems like something that would work in SF but few other places. in the small town i used to live in, this was just hanging outside the coffee shop (not a laptop in sight).
@jonah Yeah — I think it’s perhaps especially for cities where most people live alone or without children? There’s more slow community in small towns (if they have downtowns, maybe), and kids make for instant neighbors if you have parks, etc. But the number of kids in my city has plummeted, so—.