What's real success?

Meals used to be available daily in Springfield but service has declined to four or five days a week.

A Soup Kitchens Task Force wants to rebuild that structure.

The need has climbed as the economy has floundered, said Vincent Chase, executive director of Catholic Social Services, which also runs Second Harvest Food Bank.

It's great that people are pulling together in times like this - both here in the greater Dayton area, and around the world. It's true that no man is an island, and that"We must all hang together, or most assuredly we shall hang separately".

Those statements are truisms simply because... they're true. America - despite its mythology of individualism - is a land where no individual succeeds without a community. Whether Boston merchants during the Tea Party, "the Donald" with his employees, or Daytonians during a massive Christmas snow, we all need and depend on others in some way. It's how you treat those others in your community that really demonstrates how successful you are.