Why Christian Bale Built a Foster Village in the California Desert - The New York Times
A New York Times article explains why actor Christian Bale built a foster village in the California desert.
John Cox
Blogs · @wyome
Tagged community · everything
A looming ‘tsunami’ of church closings is poised to remake America | CNN
A PBS documentary series examines the crisis facing American churches, with experts projecting that roughly 100,000 will close or be repurposed over the next decade due to declining membership and attendance. The film follows struggling congregations like one in Michigan forced to shut its doors, while also profiling churches that have adapted successfully through technology, welcoming community service roles, and making worship engaging for younger generations. Though Christianity remains dominant in America, churches face a fundamental tension between preserving the familiar rituals that comfort longtime members and making the changes necessary to attract new worshippers and survive.
River Arts District Brewing Co Restaurant - Visit to Find Food Options & See River Arts District Brewing Co Social Media & Official Accounts | Linktree
A community driven brewery and taproom located in the River Arts District.
The HYROX Boom Proves People Want More From Their Weekly Workouts
Competitive fitness—exemplified by HYROX races that combine running with functional workout stations—has exploded from niche trend to mainstream fitness category, with participation growing from 175,000 to over 650,000 competitors in just one year and expected to reach 1.3 million by 2026. Rather than isolated workouts, people now train toward concrete, measurable goals with specific race dates, creating a psychological shift where gyms build entire class schedules around these events and participants adopt an "everyday athlete" identity that blends strength, endurance, and community. This hybrid format appeals broadly because it offers sport-like structure and serious training without requiring elite athlete backgrounds, positioning competitive fitness as the next evolution of group fitness where people seek trackable progress, social connection, and purposeful training simultaneously.
Global Learners | Discovery Education
Building a more peaceful, healthy, and mutually respectful world begins at the level of personal interactions. Peace Corps Volunteers not only work alongside communities as partners and learners, but act as emissaries for their own communities here in the United States in each one-on-one interaction in their host country.
Could the Blackfoot Wisdom that Inspired Maslow Guide Us Now?
Revisiting research on Abraham Maslow's 1938 stay among the Siksika (Blackfoot) Nation, this piece traces how his encounter with a culture defined by generosity, restorative justice, permissive child-rearing, and near-universal self-actualization likely shaped—and was later flattened by—his famous hierarchy of needs. It draws on Blackfoot scholars Ryan Heavy Head and Narcisse Blood and psychologist Cindy Blackstock to argue that Western individualist models miss what the Blackfoot worldview centers: self-actualization as innate rather than earned, needs met communally rather than hierarchically, and wellbeing sustained across generations rather than individually. The author uses this contrast to critique the American "bootstraps" myth and current inequality, framing the pandemic as an opening to relearn interdependence from Indigenous traditions.
Show Support Here!!
Wounded Warrior Project
Krop - Pluck't
An inspiring peek at a few of the finest portfolio pieces as they are added by our users daily
Dribbble - What are you working on?
Dribbble - What are you working on? -
Homearama provides a long-lasting boost for Norton Commons | The Courier-Journal | courier-journal.com
Homearama provides a long-lasting boost for Norton Commons | #louisville -
Event: Hear about the South Fourth Street Retail Plan | Broken Sidewalk
The Downtown Development Corporation is hosting a presentation of the South Fourth Street Retail Merchandising Plan on August 29, featuring Rick Hill from Village Solutions, who will explain the recommendations in the report. Village Solutions previously worked on East Market Street planning and is known for producing detailed renderings of proposed development scenarios.
LivingSocial
Donate $5 to Red Cross Relief Efforts and LivingSocial will match your donation! via @LivingSocial
Social Media Club Louisville Expands Mission, Changes Name | Louisville Digital Association
The Social Media Club Louisville rebranded itself as the Louisville Digital Association at a December meeting, expanding its mission beyond social media to focus broadly on growing the region's digital economy. The organization, led by president Jay Garmon, repositioned itself to address a wider scope of digital business and economic development initiatives.
Looking for something to read? Here's a messy collection of book-recommendation threads on reddit. : books
This is a curated index of Reddit book recommendation threads organized by subreddit and topic, compiled from various sources to help readers discover new titles across genres like science fiction, philosophy, dystopian fiction, and nonfiction. The author acknowledges the list is incomplete and skewed toward popular subreddits, noting that many threads overlap in their recommendations (particularly titles like *1984* and *Brave New World*) while still containing hidden gems worth exploring. The post invites readers to contribute additional threads, especially from topic-specific communities not yet represented.
Sailfish-Project | Google Groups
Groups and Roadmap is up for #sailfish
Flickr: The Commons
The Flickr Commons is a collaborative platform launched in 2008 by Flickr and the Library of Congress that allows over 100 cultural institutions to publicly share photographs from their archives. The program aims to increase public access to photography collections, enable crowdsourced metadata improvements, and facilitate knowledge contribution from users while ensuring the long-term preservation of these digitized materials. Cultural institutions with photography collections can register to participate and contribute their holdings to the growing commons.
Get Satisfaction - People-Powered Customer Service
A customer service platform that leverages community feedback and user-generated content to help businesses resolve customer issues.
Desktop wallpaper | Social Wallpapering
A public effort to classify, rank, and distribute high-resolution images for use as desktop wallpapers.
Joker's Updates - CBS BB8: Big Brother 8 USA Live Updates, News, and much more.
I can't write a summary of this content because it isn't a saved article. This appears to be a live feed transcript or chat log from what looks like a reality TV show, documenting various casual conversations among people named Barrett, Taylor, Yash, Dee, and Melody about clothing repairs, the Kardashians, COVID, and vanilla bean naming conventions.
Live Search
Today marks the first day of Hispanic Heritage Mon