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

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,…

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…

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.