12-31-2016, 07:26 AM
Imagine you are Puna District. You're getting older, and you're the part of, as the bumper sticker says, the "Big Island, Getting Bigger Every Day."
Your roads are crumbling with the increase in traffic. They're substandard, mostly unpaved & unimproved. In many cases only a single two lane path has ever slash and burned it's way in or out of places you or someone you know lives or works.
The Post Office pretends you barely exist, that it's impossible to find a route from them to you. UPS & FedEx on the other hand have figured it out, and you yourself accomplish this impossible feat daily. When you stop and wait to turn on to the highway you realize almost everyone else has too. Except the US Mail truck. We have plenty of rain, but maybe they're holding off for some sleet and snow before they'll think about making their appointed rounds.
What would you resolve to change for 2017, if you could? Even though Puna District is large and varied in terrain, with inhabitants, human, domestic, feral, indigenous, migrant. You realize any preference in your selection is bound to favor one over another. Of course that's exactly as a personal New Years Resolution plays out, we're conflicted within ourselves and inconsistent in our decision making process. Like that resolution made in 2011 when you were determined to finally lose a pound a week, but then on a Sunday drive through Honoka'a you saw Tex Drive In and thought it's OK, maybe just one malasada and you can still lose weight. If not today, then later. The weight loss, not the malasada.
What about your small ideas for Puna, goals an individual or small group could accomplish, or the Grand Schemes which may take years or decades?
Puna's New Years Resolution 2017:
I Puna District (as a resident), resolve to try and do better at contacting our elected officials about upcoming legislation and how it affects us here. Hopefully it will additionally serve to remind them that we exist.
"One may pretend knowledge of philosophy more successfully than that of arithmetic." -Last Aphorisms (or how about, one may pretend knowledge with an opinion more successfully than with facts)
Your roads are crumbling with the increase in traffic. They're substandard, mostly unpaved & unimproved. In many cases only a single two lane path has ever slash and burned it's way in or out of places you or someone you know lives or works.
The Post Office pretends you barely exist, that it's impossible to find a route from them to you. UPS & FedEx on the other hand have figured it out, and you yourself accomplish this impossible feat daily. When you stop and wait to turn on to the highway you realize almost everyone else has too. Except the US Mail truck. We have plenty of rain, but maybe they're holding off for some sleet and snow before they'll think about making their appointed rounds.
What would you resolve to change for 2017, if you could? Even though Puna District is large and varied in terrain, with inhabitants, human, domestic, feral, indigenous, migrant. You realize any preference in your selection is bound to favor one over another. Of course that's exactly as a personal New Years Resolution plays out, we're conflicted within ourselves and inconsistent in our decision making process. Like that resolution made in 2011 when you were determined to finally lose a pound a week, but then on a Sunday drive through Honoka'a you saw Tex Drive In and thought it's OK, maybe just one malasada and you can still lose weight. If not today, then later. The weight loss, not the malasada.
What about your small ideas for Puna, goals an individual or small group could accomplish, or the Grand Schemes which may take years or decades?
Puna's New Years Resolution 2017:
I Puna District (as a resident), resolve to try and do better at contacting our elected officials about upcoming legislation and how it affects us here. Hopefully it will additionally serve to remind them that we exist.
"One may pretend knowledge of philosophy more successfully than that of arithmetic." -Last Aphorisms (or how about, one may pretend knowledge with an opinion more successfully than with facts)
"I'm at that stage in life where I stay out of discussions. Even if you say 1+1=5, you're right - have fun." - Keanu Reeves