The coming of the New Year gives one the opportunity to review their place in the world, asses the things they’d like to see different in themselves and others and to take stock of what to do about it.
Can you change others? Not likely.
Can you change yourself? With dedication and effort.
Can you change your circumstances? By all means.
Can you change the community in which you live to make it more acceptable to you? One can, but it is really hard.
The Estesparkian would like to share the resolutions we could make that would make this a better community.
1. Be accountable and ask others to be accountable.
2. Educate yourself about our community, politically, healthcare, Rocky Mountain National Park.
3. Take the opportunity to learn about the issues that face us and take a position on them.
4. Tell others what your position is, and why you feel that way.
5. When there is a political issue before you, become educated and find out what you believe in, then vote.
6. Volunteer. Many of us are consummate volunteers, but, try something new.
7. Read a new book every month.
8. Give a helping hand to someone you don’t know.
9. Cook a meal for 4 new people.
10. Spend an hour in the library, just to look at what we have to offer. It’s inspiring.
11. Go look at the hospitals plans for development. We are lucky to have such a dedicated Board of Trustees and the departing Doug Faus. Doug, thank you for being in our community and good luck with your great new job.
12. Support our school board. We pay for our schools, we should know about them.
Estes Park seems to have more warts than most communities, but there is a remedy. It’s us. Let’s all take the responsibility for where we are and make a difference is that is what we want.
