We are so lucky to live in such a wonderful community.

 Sitting in my home office during the ice storm last night, I spent quite a bit of time working on my files and multitasking.

I was reading the messages on Facebook from one of the East end community groups that I have recently joined.

It is interesting to notice that some of these groups have a  unique personality, different from other groups.


The  Danforth-Woodbine group  is the last community group I have joined. It is a very welcoming and friendly group. Last night it became clear that the group consisted of very caring individuals.


It was refreshing reading the posts that were being posted  every few seconds from caring people about things like, "watch your step out there" or  "it's very icy and slippery on such an such a street, be careful" or wanting to share and warn others of things like "our lights just went out on Queensbury, get your candles ready" and others saying  "our lights are flickering on Queensdale", " Then someone would say right after " so are ours"  and another response came quickly after hers,"mine too, we must be neighbors, lets get our emergency kits ready".

The sense of community was so strong, we were together,  united by our computers and smart phone screens, sharing our experiences, total strangers, being united by the storm, by our proximity to each others, by our humanity, by our shared experience.

It was nice to sit with a warm drink by the fireplace and know that many of the wonderful strangers I was getting to know, were doing the same thing, some alone, some with their families, their kids, their pets.

I imagined that some of them may had been sitting by their computers in the safety of their homes, with a warm drink,and maybe with a throw warming out by the fireplace. Some others communicating  with the smart phones while starting to cook dinner or while getting their children to settle down.

But one thing was bringing us all together, the desire to help each others. It gave me such a great feeling to see that neighbors were trying to help other neighbors, most of which were strangers,  but strangers who were linked with each others thanks to their community Facebook group. It warmed my heart and made me happy to be part of such wonderful community. I love my city!