Community Can Be

Us

People

Company

A place

Kinship

Sharing

Likeness

Our crew

Our team

Belonging

Fellowship

Similarity

Association

Common life

Participation

A shared story

Shared identity

What defines us

Shared interests

Durable relations

Social interaction

Consciousness of kind

A group of living things

Collective identification

The sense of togetherness

The smallest unit of health

A place to meet common needs

Ownership or participation in common

The assembling of ourselves together

People in a limited geographical area

Sharing, participation, and fellowship

Possession of common ends, norms, means

Having certain attitudes and interests in common

Seeing the world through the lens of shared stories

A sign that we don't need a lot of money to be happy

A feeling as well as a set of relationships among people

A group of people who share an identity-forming narrative

Like a ship - everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm

Building the history of others into our own personal history

A group of people having a particular characteristic in common

A structure for the gratification of physical and social needs

Building shared story archetypes (characters) into our sense of ourselves

A manifestation of God in the world, a picture on earth of a divine relationship

A social unit with commonality such as norms, religion, values, customs, or identity

To know someone who thinks and feels with us, and who, though distant, is close to us in spirit

A structure of relationships through which a localized population provides its daily requirements

When interaction between individuals has the purpose of meeting individual needs and obtaining group goals

A group of people who share a story that is so important to them that it defines an aspect of who they are

A sign that love is possible in a materialistic world where people so often either ignore or fight each other

Natural ties of kinship and friendship, by familiarity, and by age-old habit and customary ways of doing things

A configuration as a way of life, both as to how people do things and what they want, to say, their institutions and goals

The process of telling a story about ourselves that draws on the shared cultural story archetypes which creates and maintains a shared identity

A group with intent, belief, resources, preferences, needs, and risks in common, which affects the identity of the participants and their degree of cohesiveness

The mental and spiritual condition of knowing that a place is shared, and that the people who share the place define and limit the possibilities of each other's lives

A group of people with diverse characteristics who are linked by social ties, share common perspectives, and engage in joint action in geographical locations or settings