View From Here: A Quick Trip

View From Here: A Quick Trip: Away we went early on a Saturday morning. First light was behind us but no clouds, a weak early glimmer of sunlight promising a warmer day...

View From Here: Thought for the Day

View From Here: Thought for the Day: We answer to ourselves for what we do. That’s my thought for the day. I am interested in a lot of things. Active in many things. Explo...

View From Here: Still Searching

View From Here: Still Searching: Who am I? Who are you? What do you, and I, want to be when we grow up? Once embarked on a journey of discovery, does it ever end? I’ve...

View From Here: Getting Art

View From Here: Getting Art: More than five years ago some volunteers met to discuss forming an art organization in our small town 30 miles west of Chicago . A suburb ...

View From Here: Two Lessons from Boston

View From Here: Two Lessons from Boston: Time is healing my upset over the Boston Marathon bombings. The frustration and sorrow felt for innocents remains but is ebbing. Not becau...

View From Here: Thought for the Day

View From Here: Thought for the Day: Do what you love . Steve Jobs made this statement: “Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be tru...

View From Here: Fearing Change

View From Here: Fearing Change: Our town is contemplating long term objectives. Hard enough to get a block party organized let alone agree on a time to meet! And here we ...

View From Here: Shame on Us

View From Here: Shame on Us: Actually shame upon the Congress of the United States of America . Firearm background checks were clearly supported by most Americans. The...

View From Here: Finding an Opportunity to Grow

View From Here: Finding an Opportunity to Grow: Blogs take many shapes and fill many purposes. Mine is a personal commentary of living life. Unfolding meaning and events provide the acti...

View From Here: Taxes and Blessings

View From Here: Taxes and Blessings: Yesterday was the tax filing deadline. Did you make it? Or did you ask for an extension?  As usual I procrastinated buy 6 weeks before the...

View From Here: Blog Draft April 15Usable QuotesFound a number o...

View From Here: Blog Draft April 15
Usable Quotes
Found a number o...: Blog Draft April 15 Usable Quotes Found a number of quotations on the internet from the past few weeks. Thought you might find the...

Change For A Dollar

View From Here: Exhausting Week

View From Here: Exhausting Week: A lot was worked on this week and we are tired. Not only is this a production week for the paper (distributed on Thursday, mailed on Frida...

View From Here: Election Results

View From Here: Election Results: Who won? Which referendum succeeded? Who lost? Are the results going to make for changes in our community? There are many ways to repo...

View From Here: More Housing Issues

View From Here: More Housing Issues: Let’s get off the co-housing topic for awhile. Related to it – but far different – are other community needs that hinge on housing pattern...

Democratic Rep. Bryce Bennett moves a bill to decriminalize homosexualit...

View From Here: More on Co-Housing

View From Here: More on Co-Housing: Co-housing was addressed here yesterday. Much more can be said about the concept. In time the discussion will become rich with possibiliti...

View From Here: Co-Housing

View From Here: Co-Housing: What is co-housing? It is when two or more unrelated family units share living space intentionally.  This saves on living expenses of cour...

View From Here: Thought for the Day

View From Here: Thought for the Day: Scattered Focus At recent gatherings and meetings I've noticed a decided lack of focus. Conversations are easily diverted to other to...

View From Here: Waiting

View From Here: Waiting: It’s a long boring road. Waiting. Waiting some more. Taking a nap to push it out of mind. Upon waking nothing has changed. Back to waiting...

View From Here: Government Transparency

View From Here: Government Transparency: By the time this is read local elections will be over and winners announced. I wanted to share with you some comments on the issue of tran...

View From Here: Big Issue

View From Here: Big Issue: There is an issue we all face.  All over the globe this issue exists. For nations with means this issue is managed well. For poor countrie...