As we turn to the holiday season, Lookout columnist Claudia Sternbach is hungry for tales of community. Recently, she found inspiration in a new children’s book written by Aptos native Taylor Lahey, who moved back home during the pandemic. "Câmbio" tells the story of a community in Brazil that has banded together to solve the city’s trash and transportation problems. “I kept imagining our own Santa Cruz County community doing something similar,” she writes. “Could a program like this work here?”