Birdsong shares inspiring stories of people she knows who have participated in or taken steps to strengthen their communities, social networks, and families-of-choice. She concludes:

We are living in a contradiction—we are made for interdependence, connection, and love, but part of a culture that espouses the opposite. Creating and keeping what is counter-culture requires vigilance. We stumble, backslide, and forget. There is a tension between existing in one world while trying to live into another one. That place in between them is full of friction. But like so many change processes, the thing we are trying to get to holds the key to getting there. Reclaiming and reinventing family, friendship, and community is a process we do with our family, friends, and community.