People

Compromise

Around 248 years ago, our forefathers created a government of, for and with the citizen’s freedoms in mind.

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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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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?

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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.

The News

The best war is the one that never happens.” — Sun TzuA new coffee shop opens up across the street from an established one. There are hand grenade insults thrown at each shop from customers showing their team support. This fire fight of words summons a war of best coffee on the block. Online posts ignite into…

Blame and Responsibility

Who takes responsibility for our country, our constitution, our three branches of government, even our president? WE do. Do WE point the finger at our governor because Florida is so expensive for actual Floridians to live here? Are our county commissioners to blame for our roads not being maintained? Do WE fault our city mayor…

America is Sick

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…