How do WE get to YES?
Roughly 100,000 years ago, our foremothers and forefathers started trusting. So, why have we lost that trust in our fellow human today? The threat of the unknown keeps us fearful of virtually everyone. We live alone in our own ideological silos. We look at outsiders as strangers and untrustworthy. We are navigated by fear. With…
Read More We The People
We The People November 5, 2024, 89.9% of eligible voters in Lake County showed up. Let that sink in for a moment. The first three words of the preamble to the Constitution and the most important words in the entire document, “We the People” highly participated in our democracy. We the People made our voices…
Read More Community Farming
Imagine a farm built by Willy Wonka. Blades of grass curl up between your toes tickling your feet as you walk barefoot. Chiming bamboo dances in the breeze.
Read More The Wolf Within
The communal oxygen we give others keeps them pertinent, relevant, and alive. However, when we stop supplying attention, they find their fix elsewhere.
Read More Vote or Leave
America has the longest standing democracy in the world. As an experiment in participatory society, America asks its citizens every election to show up.
Read More Tis Better To Have Loved And Lost Than Never Loved At All?
The smell of Loves Baby Soft wafting through my nostrils as a high school memory takes me back. Fleetwood Mac’s “Changes” takes me to a breakup a year back.
Read More Is Your Mouth The Cause?
I am speaking of the vile waste which comes out of our mouths. You ever think these words are pure hot air and that is what is heating up our planet?
Read More Small World Or Long Life?
We have roughly 28,000 days of life. That is 78 years to do something, anything or nothing. So, what do we do with all this time?
Read More Let Land Be Land
This year’s ballot will have another Public Lands Acquisition Referendum. How about we put land aside for observation, conservation, and preservation?
Read More The Art of Showing Up
Before it was socially acceptable to place “matter”, we cared about our families, our neighbors, our community, our state our nation and our planet.
Read More How I Battled My Mental Health Demons
We know someone as we're living in this new world of heightened emotions that's dealing with loss, aloneness, and desperation. Or, that someone is us.
Read More Food Insecurity, What is the Solution?
Traditional farm fields and pastures have been eliminated from the picture almost entirely. Grocery aisles have been planted instead of farm rows.
Read More Disagreeing and Getting Along
We need to be quiet enough to hear other’s opinions. We need to be quiet enough to hear our own thoughts. We give advice as well as receive it.
Read More Florida wildflowers we are adding to “Here on the Farm”
In our continuous quest to enhance the natural beauty and sustainability of our farm, we've recently decided on an exciting initiative.
Read More This is what CIVILITY looks like.
Small farmer, native Floridian, and champion for political CIVILITY – the act of attacking issues rather than people.
Read More Sustainability! Who’s in?
"Who wants to learn how to grow their own food, given the plants to grow their own food and then eat the food grown by their own plants?
Read More Stories Are The Glue Of Our Community
A Letter to You, my Neighbors! I am pivoting and asking you to go on this adventure with me.
Read More CIVILITY is…
CIVILITY is the New Path Ahead. See our list of how to bring more civility to the political conversation on the local, state and federal levels.
Read More People Are The Stories
As a candidate, I feel I have a legitimate purpose to meet people which parallels with my human nature of connecting with others.
Read More Civility, What Happened?
I remember when red and blue were integral colors of the American flag, before they became political and ideological dividing lines.
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