Even a simple soup, when dashed with a dose…

Even a simple soup, when dashed with a dose of ritual, can create that sense of community. Countless cultures have some version of a hot broth for a day of healing-either of body or soul.

— from Friends, Community & Society (Relationships/Community/Society) · Ritual Effect: From Habit to Ritual, Harness the Surprising Power of Everyday Actions by M

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The strongest of them are thick — built around a shared moral cause, treating their members not as resources to be used but as fellow travelers on a common mission, with the relationships themselves set at the very center of the enterprise. You build that kind of community on purpose: by holding conversations that dwell on possibilities rather than problems — what could we make together, what talents here have gone unused; by giving it a dependable way of gathering, a regular method that reliably brings people together; and by binding it with the smallest shared rituals, the way even a pot of soup, dressed in a little ceremony, can manufacture belonging. The bonds themselves grow the slow way, one small contact at a time. — Friends, Community & Society (Relationships/Community/Society)

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