by Pam Rempe | Apr 22, 2025 | Imagine the Possibilities, Neighborhood Well-being, Pursue the Common Good
In times that feel rife with upheaval, it is hard to know where to turn amidst the pervasive feelings of uncertainty and dread. For me, most of these challenging feelings directly stem from my awareness of the climate crisis and all its intersecting points of rupture....
by Pam Rempe | Mar 25, 2025 | Imagine the Possibilities, Neighborhood Well-being, Pursue the Common Good
Part of my neighboring life includes visiting friends in the assisted-living facility, adding a trip to Costco for a sick friend, or taking an injured neighbor to her physical therapy appointments. As a mom, I have learned how to do this with kids in tow. I am...
by Pam Rempe | Mar 11, 2025 | Imagine the Possibilities, Neighborhood Well-being
Have you ever found yourself in some forest glade – maybe a patch of oaks along your evening walk, or a fleeting moment of solitude in the redwoods on a family camping trip – and there, under the dense canopy dotted with light above you, gotten the sense...
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 | Sep 17, 2024 | Getting to Know Your Neighbors, Neighborhood Well-being
Some of the things we think will make us happy, or ought to make us happy… actually don’t, at least not in the long term. Things like lots of money, a promotion at work, more travel, more possessions, an ideal appearance, and other ways that people sometimes measure a...
