Civility

We The People

November 5, 2024, 89.9% of eligible voters in Lake County showed up. Let that sink in for a moment.

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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.

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.

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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.

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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?

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.

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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.

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.

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.

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Think Big

If we find the fortitude to acknowledge the genius in each other, invite all to the table, and think big, real change is attainable.

The News

On the very streets that Americans were exercising their first and second amendment rights, our sister and brother were killed by our own government. This is an undisputed fact and there are two camps of reasoning which have evolved. Both are equally sick. The first group condones and justifies our government’s actions. The second flatly…

The Bucket and Property Taxes

Two hundred years ago, everyone owned a leather bucket for one purpose only – to put out fires. Back then we were all volunteer firefighters and if our neighbor’s home went up in flames, the community came together. We did not have a tax funded fire department, yet we did have those who came together…

Showing Up

As an economic system based on the premise of individuals and companies owning the means and production of goods and services, capitalism is the primary structure of our country. We are driven for the acquisition of money, yet money is not the win all. What money brings to us is what drives us, and it all…