Thank you to our Axios Phoenix community

Zoom in: The best part about this job is the community of subscribers who give us story tips, send us advice and hold us accountable when we mess up.

• Subscriber Randy sent Jessica his grandmother's top secret banana bread recipe (after she swore to protect it) and Gary kindly shared his Rome guide to help her plan her honeymoon.
• Jeremy got some great science-fiction recommendations from readers — he absolutely loved "Darwin's Radio" and "Project Hail Mary" — and learned from subscriber William that the humongous caterpillar in his wife's garden is a tomato hornworm that will turn into an (also humongous) five-spotted hawk moth.

Of note: In our previous roles, we usually only heard from readers who were angry — at us and at the world.

The bottom line: Journalism can be a tough job. We're constantly confronting societal failures, asking people questions they don't want to answer and documenting the worst days of people's lives.

• You've helped us remember that there's more good than bad in our hometown.

1 last thing: Let's keep growing this community! Share our newsletter with your friends, coworkers and neighbors.