Want to be part of a village? You might need to get out of your comfort zone

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People say it takes a village to do difficult things: raise a child, sustain a community, build a barn.

But we don’t often talk a lot about what it takes to be a villager. What does it mean to not just be in a community, but to help create one?

Priya Parker,