When a street is cordoned off, refreshments provided, music and games offered by the neighbors to each other, and people are given an excuse to mingle for a few hours on a summer evening, then the street takes on new and more hospitable meaning. Do it often enough and that street becomes a place where people pass each other with warm memories and hopeful expectations rather than unawareness and suspicion.
— Parker J. Palmer, Soul Feast by Marjorie J. Thompson