Neighbors

 Do you know the names of your neighbors?  There is a good chance that you know the names of players on your favorite team, but not your neighbors’ names.  We connect less now with those around us.  As a child in an apartment building, I knew some of my neighbors.  In our suburban home I knew the names of people in houses around us.  If I did not spend time with them that was my shyness, or lack of social skills.  But I knew their names and would talk with them when I saw them.  I knew all the kids on my block.  And so on.  Showing up where the same people meet is a good way to be known and to know names.