We The People
November 5, 2024, 89.9% of eligible voters in Lake County showed up. Let that sink in for a moment.
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 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 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 I'm With Banks!
The News
Servants of Democracy
At his swearing in, the newly elected Mayor of Groveland Keith Keogh made two points quite clear – 1. citizens are the leaders and 2. elected officials are the servants to the citizens. I cannot agree more with him. Once a year in selected municipalities and every two years in our state and federal jurisdictions,…
Read More Freedoms Are Not Free
What is the most despised word in April? Taxes! In fact, have you ever met anyone who speaks positively about them? We loathe paying them. We attempt to get out of paying them at every turn. We hire lawyers and tax accountants to shield us from them. We argue “Why pay taxes, we live in a…
Read More Welcome to spring on the Farm
Spring is by far the best time to be on a farm. Everything is alive! Flowers open right in front of your eyes, creaking bamboo grows right in front of you, mulberries ripen as you walk by them.
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