Mm.

And I was quite dismayed, and we had, uh, many meetings, and I was trying to bring the groups together.

And, uh, at the end of that year we had a bit of a, uh, the temperature went down on the issue, but I thought to myself, "This will not be solved overnight." And I had this idea of creating a baseball league where kids from all over the beach, back cottages, front cottages, neighborhoods behind the back cottages, east beach, west beach, would come together for this baseball program.

And the idea was that we would build community so that we would have teams, and we'd draft them, not according to their ability or their location, but just randomly somewhat.

And then the parents of the players would be sitting with their aunts and uncles and grandparents, but also the aunts and uncles, parents of other people from the beach.

So suddenly they're beside each other cheering for the shared team.

Shared values, shared goals, getting to know each other, have a history.

Wow