I want to get back to my blog. For the last few years it has been a blog of gratitude. I needed that because I was shocked by the political turn the country had made and how it seemed to be embracing the dark side. I don’t know why that shocked me, but it did. I was in the public education system most of my life and there are very few placed that feel the political shifts and rumblings of the country more than public schools.
Now I want to write about goals and aspirations
I have for myself and my communities that are all very interconnected. That
includes education, running, politics, and faith. I kind of hope that I get as
few readers for that as I did my journals of gratitude, but I really think
people are more likely to interact with opinions and that bothers me a little
bit. I think the best life comes from gratitude and that comes from my faith
and my real-world experiences. I’m never more content and happier than when I
just set aside all the strife in my life (and there is much there for all of us
as human beings) and think about all the wonderful things I have. So, I won’t leave
that behind. I will try to infuse gratitude into every aspect of my thinking,
even if I’m working for change.
I think of people growing up here in Potlatch and
going to school in a building with no walls between classrooms. They often
would say, “If it was good enough for me, it’s good enough for them.” I admire
the aspect of gratitude in that statement, but I chafe at the idea of us all
having the same things and settling for it. I believe America has always been
great because it is dynamic, living. I also believe a more perfect union lives
within that dynamic life.
