Biscuits & Cornbread - Symbols of Belonging

One more thing -

Reading about the Belonging Initiative in my previous post, I couldn’t help but remember some of the ways in which neighbors connect, share, show their care. Its hard to make out in this photo but near the bottom of the image is a bag of biscuits, warm, freshly baked yeast biscuits to be exact, left inside our door one morning by our neighbor Doc Sigmund. On a different morning, we found a pone of cornbread (baked with black walnuts) from our neighbor Arnold. He grows the corn and grinds it into the white, fine meal that becomes the main ingredient of his bread.

I think this ‘giving‘ is one powerful (and delicious) way to weave the ties that bind a community or neighborhood together.

~ by candeebasford on May 5, 2008.