My community is an ordinary New England town an hour from Boston and an hour from the seacoast. It is filled with ordinary, decent people, and it is peppered with heroes. The heroes are largely unsung: they are the emergency personnel, moms and dads, teachers and funeral directors, town clerks and auto mechanics who will do anything in the world that they can for someone else they can help, coach, or inspire. So I would like to help my community by finding ways to acknowledge and celebrate these good people. I would love to sing their songs and publish their values. I would love for them to know they matter and that together they build a bright future for the town’s children. I would like to help my community by showing people that the most ordinary things are utterly extraordinary, and by drawing together these folks in mutual respect and thankfulness.