A movement for human connection

Liminal Abundance

The oldest medicine for loneliness is simple: one shared moment with the people around you — one light, one feeling — and knowing you belong to it.

Free  ·  for everyone  ·  rooted in Oakland

Why we exist

We are more connected than any humans in history, and lonelier for it.

The distance between people has grown even as the wires between them multiplied. Belonging has always carried a cost of admission — vulnerability, the fear of being judged for how you look, move, worship, or love.

We exist to lower that cost to almost nothing. To let anyone step into a shared moment, on their own terms, and feel accepted and connected — without having to perform, prove, or expose themselves to do it. We are not here to make anyone rich. We are here to help people be themselves and lift up their community.

What it is

One light, shared — woven into the life already happening.

Synchronized light, sometimes music — and, when you're ready, being truly understood. It lives in three expressions, on one shared foundation, turning the strangers nearby into something you can feel part of.

Each one rides on what people already have — a light, a gathering, a phone in a pocket — so it can be everyday, not a ticket you buy.

The light — tonight

You don't need us to begin.

At dusk, turn on a light — a lamp, a candle, your phone in the window — and know someone else is doing the same.

Then leave it, and go outside. The whole point is to look up and be with the people around you. This is the one thing we build that asks nothing of you but that.

Set up your remembrance light →

No spam, no selling your address. Just a note when there's something real to gather for.

The light — you're not alone in this

We are not moving on. We are moving with.

Grief isn't a thing to get over — it's love that goes on looking for somewhere to land. Every evening, near sunset, lights come on: in windows, on phones, in shopfronts, each one someone remembering. Add yours, and see how many are holding this moment with you.

Light a light with us

Then look up. Some of those lights are close enough to walk to.

The light — in loving memory

Dr. Cynthia Medina
1984 — 2026

She is the sunflower that turns toward the light, and the moon that glows softly in the dark.

A psychologist who spent her life seeing the strength in people. She found the sacred in a sunset. Everything here exists to keep her spirit moving — and to teach a neighborhood to turn its lights on for one another.

After the light — grow toward each other

Finding each other is the first step. Understanding each other is the path.

A light in a window says you're not alone. What comes after is slower and braver: saying what you actually mean and having it land. Hearing someone in their own words instead of yours. Becoming, gently and at your own pace, more of who you hope to be.

That's what our sister project discoball.chat is for. It sits quietly between two people like a patient translator — you say it once, and it arrives in the other person's world the way you meant it. And when you're ready, it can hold up a mirror: the people who know you help you see yourself clearly, so growing starts from what's real, not what you wish were true. It never grades you and never pushes. Every step is yours to take, or to decline.

Cross the bridge — discoball.chat →

Made in the same spirit as everything here: free to begin, owned by no one, built to see people clearly.

Our promises to you

You can trust this place.

Belonging should never come with fine print. So these aren't rules buried in a document you'll never read — they're built into how Abundance works, which means they can't quietly slip. Here's what you can always count on.

Connection over engagement
We measure whether people felt they belonged — never how long we kept them staring at a screen.
Free at the core
Belonging is never behind a paywall — and no single company can buy it, gate it, or fence it off.
No surveillance
We don't harvest who is near whom. We collect the minimum, and we forget by default.
You're always in control
Opt in by a switch, leave any time. No one — including us — can take the wheel from you.
Radical inclusion
Every age, ability, background, and neurotype. The experience meets you; you never change to be let in.

Why the name

Two words, and a promise.

Most people meet the name before they understand it. Here's what it holds.

abundance
Connection isn't scarce. It's the rare thing that grows when you give it away — comfort someone, and you both have more, not less. There is more than enough belonging to go around, and no one can fence it off and sell it back to you. That's why this is free at its core and owned by no one. The name is the promise.
liminal
The threshold. The in-between. Dusk, between day and night; grief, between who you were and who you're becoming; the moments when the walls we usually keep up quietly come down.
liminal abundance
At the edge — in the very moments that feel loneliest — there turns out to be more than enough of each other. The person beside you is carrying a loss too. You were never as alone as it felt.

Do you feel seen?

If something here reached you — even a little — say so. We're quietly counting how many of us have felt it.

Carry it forward

This spreads hand to hand, or not at all.

There's no membership and nothing to buy. The simplest way to help is to put a small card in someone's hand — one that points them to a light they can turn on tonight.

Ways to help & print your own cards →