How To Have Friendly Neighbors You Can Rely On

It takes effort and understanding on your part. And love.

A group of us going out to celebrate after a good medical report for me. I am wearing a hat due to hair loss from chemo.

The other day, someone commented on one of my articles about how I was lucky to live in a neighborhood where people care for each other. I am lucky but I also believe that, to some degree, we all make our own luck.

Here is the article I wrote that invited the comment:

Death Demands Kindness

The reality is that, once upon a time, people knew their neighbors. My mother grew up in India. If anything, the neighbors there might be too involved in each others’ lives! However, they were helpful to each other. If someone got sick, neighbors would bring nourishing food for the family. They were helpful to each other.

My husband grew up in Iowa in the 1960s. He remembers playing outside with the neighbor kids. His mother would have other neighbor women over for coffee and his father had a monthly poker night with some of the men in the neighborhood along with other friends. Summer barbecues were neighborhood get togethers.