By Nathan Goode and Heather D’Alessio
Crestone-Baca townhall meetings planned for “A potluck of ideas”
First meeting is Dec. 16, 2 p.m., The Cloud Station, 222 Cottonwood St., Crestone, CO
Wishing you all well this Winter Solstice! Our hopes are that sharing our diversity provides inspiration for gratitude and reverence for each other and that of our village – the Crestone-Baca (CB) community. We are building trust and celebrating a happy healthy New Year for all souls reaching out into the universe!
Calling all CB solutionaries to action
Lone nuts, loose screws and off-the-wall odd-balls, young, old and the forgotten, calling the wise and the spiritual and those who create new paths of diversity…male, female or other…rich, poor, urban or rural, the time is ripe for coming together to celebrate and shape our local universe.
Please attend the community townhall meeting, a potluck of ideas at the Cloud Station, Dec. 16, 2-5 p.m.
Most of us are from diverse cultures, however we all share relations – we breathe the same air and break bread together on this beautiful biosphere, and so too do we work hard to stay free and sow the seeds of tomorrow. Now it is time to ask: What is our cultural pulse? What are our community’s wishes?
Our opinion is that our local CB (and beyond) democracies can reach the next level of maturity and trust. If “we the people” show up to guide our local county and state governments to follow our community’s wishes, demonstrating mutual respect and support, the same respect would result which they themselves would like to have by standing together with purpose. The rubber can meet the road if enough of us get on the bus. Also, public servants who engage their constituents with straw polls and surveys will discover what the taxpayers’ money will be spent on. These leaders will be favored as they follow the people.
- Do you support this townhall-style meeting (THM) for CB on a regular basis? Would you consider monthly meetings?
- Would you attend the CBTHM?
The idea is that folks at CBTHMs would work together to find common ground to inspire our local leadership, and determine what folks really want for the future (what we do with our tax dollars). We can then start the process of building unity toward those goals. It’s true that those who show-up and speak-up tend to inspire vision and action. Once the majority of our community has voiced their wishes and voted their conscience, then the pulse can be discovered by the leaders, at which time those (likely public works projects) can be supported and completed by the community.
Democracy in action: if the majority vote and the vision is supported by the remaining populace an even stronger voice toward the goals can be sung, achieving huge accomplishments for our CB village. With a unified — yet diverse — voice we can stay free of local, as well as global, abuse of our inalienable rights and responsibilities. “Do no harm, live-and-let-live.” And “life liberty and the pursuit of happiness” are two concepts that come to mind. We are living fully, raising our young and growing our food on this loving journey for generations of living men and women.
And now, as we finish the article, we have such gratitude for our NHN Thanksgiving potluck, hosted at the T-Road Brewery, a place becoming synonymous with “community.” It was again a great success as the community rallied to share time and space, and to break bread together as we have done for decades. Happy Thanksgiving to all.
Thank you to all the volunteers and contributors. We are all thankful for each other and for the abundance that surrounds us.
Stay tuned for information concerning our January Townhall-style meeting to be hosted at the T-Road Brewing Company
Blessings,
N&H