Remember the days when someone new would move into the neighborhood and be met with casseroles and welcomes from everyone living on the block? Those were the days of the Welcome Wagon ladies who would greet new families with lists of local businesses and coupons from the neighborhood pizza parlors.
It doesn’t happen much anymore. Nowdays, the cohesiveness of neighborhoods is tested only in the face of a catastrophe like tornadoes and hurricanes.
I, for one, do not wish to meet my neighbors on the day when their homes are scattered across the county after an F5 category twister and that’s why I’m starting a campaign to deal with the Global Housewarming Crisis.
Go borrow a cup of sugar. Personally deliver the neighbor’s mail which was mistakenly put in your mailbox. Buy your neighbor’s barking dog a box of Milkbones. Plan those neighborhood block parties.
We have to act now.
