This is on point, I'm Anthony Brooks in for Magna Chakrabardi.

Do you have a favorite third place?

If home is your first place, work or school is your second place.

A third place might be your local bar or cafe, a library or a park,

a place where you can connect with neighbors and build community.

I would say my third place is the dog park.

It's a great place to meet other people from other neighborhoods,

economic situations, jobs, races, religions.

It just brings everyone together.

And I find myself spending a lot of time there, especially at the start of the pandemic.

It seems like that was the only place where I could see people in life seem to be normal.

That's on point, listener Elizabeth from Baltimore, Maryland.

She's one of many who called in to tell us about their third places.

My third place is one of four or five local taverns that I tend to frequent.

That's where everybody knows my name.

I'm greeted with a smile. They know the drink I want and sometimes engage in terrific conversation,

either with regulars or entirely new faces.

It's a cold water swimming group and it really took me by surprise to find how engaged I was

because I love these people so much and it is a head clearing oasis at the start of my day three times a week.

I'm a percussionist and most Sunday's there's a group of five to ten sometimes,

but fifteen drummers and musicians at the Peek-N-Pock.

That's where I go to make friends and absorb good energy and music from other people.

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