Page 2 - Sonoma County Gazette January 2016

February is our LOVE Month - so we’re having a
PHOTO CONTEST!
THEME: Our relationship and appreciation of animals
CATEGORIES : Pets & Wildlife
Dear Readers,
of like mind doesn’t create awareness, it only re-enforces our beliefs. When someone challenges us we strike a defensive pose but can only hold
SUB-CATERGORIES: Feathered, Finned, Furry & Scaled Photos must be HIGH QUALITY DIGITAL IMAGES - minimum 300 dpi @ 5”
I’m a born optimist - lucky me - so my glass is always half full. But I’m not fooling myself that things are getting better on more levels than they are getting worse. Pick a subject and
- it’s getting way too expensive
to continue with this method of winning and losing. We ALL lose
in war. Individually the pain is an insurmountable mountain that scars so deeply people cannot heal. That’s costly in many, many ways. Limited natural resources are destroyed. It’s all a big mess and a big mistake. But things are changing.
wide up to 10” wide suitable for PRINT.
EMAIL to vesta@sonic.net. 15 MB maximum file size. (DropBox also) SELECTED ENTRIES will be published in our February issue featuring
articles on Pets & Wildlife. WINNERS will be announced in our March issue. In order to be selected for publication in February, please have photos to us no later than January 15. To be eligible for contest PRIZES, we need entries by February 18th.
I can tell you the bright side of that story. Go ahead - I dare you.
People from one nationality and country are moving into another country and buying land, falling in love, creating families of mixed ethnic background and in the mean time
Happy New Year means a lot. It has the flavor of hope on the horizon, like everything that WAS is now firmly in the past and we can look forward to things being different in the future. Every year I hear Alan declare that he’s glad last year is over because it raked us over the coals and now we have a chance at a better year. Will I mention that he says this every year? Well, yes. Because every year has something that works hard at tearing us down while we are climbing the slippery slope of life. It’s OK. It’s life.
that so long. Eventually what they
are saying or doing has a way of influencing us. So keep talking - keep telling your truth. We are ALL right in some aspect of what we believe. If we can respect our different perspectives we just might get along!
Climate Change - woe is me -
the world is coming to an end! Well
- in fact - it’s getting better all the
time - because - we are now AWARE of the havoc we have wreaked on
our environment - in time to turn it around - but not before we feel the pain of our mistakes. We have to DO something different and we ARE - on a global level which is what it will take to heal the wounds of past errors.
Politics - I can’t say I am enamored of the presidential race so far but it has people talking about issues that need to be discussed. Mumbling to people
we are all becoming so economically dependent upon each other we won’t be able to go to war. I’m not sure how long that will take, how many generations - but in my lifetime we have come a very long way. It’s hard to meet a PURE anyone. Sooner or later we can’t kill that person because NEED each other!
Violence, war & destruction
May PEACE be with you in 2016!
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