July 6, 2020
Moab has 20 cases of COVID. Five active, 15 recovered. Most community members are being very careful. Wearing masks can help a lot, so we hope folks will do it willingly to help themselves and those around them. With so many states seeing surges, I wonder how long until we to into another shut down. Tourists are pouring in, as if nothing is wrong whatsoever. Is Rome burning or is someone cooking dinner?
Bike Skills Park. This has been a very sad time for the community. Many people feel a deep attachment to the section of the parkway that the city/county want to alter forever by grading it and removing trees to make way for a bike skills park that could be placed in other areas. This tranquil section of the parkway is a wildlife corridor, offers habitat in a world where wildlife habitat is shrinking, and is a riparian area, in a floodplain and a flood-way.
I have heard from artists, teachers, business owners, retired professionals, bicyclists, and others who are heartbroken about the very real possibility of this happening soon. I am still fighting it as much as I can, but this is one hard battle. What makes me sad is that we are robbing our children of an unspoiled area, a gift they can give to their children's children. What are we teaching kids when adults normalize destroying natural areas for playgrounds? Fingers crossed they will move this to a better location.
Homeless. There seems to be more homeless around lately. It looks like a few folks lost their housing and are back out on the street with the other chronic homeless. These folks are human beings, although they are often lumped together as one group of undesirables. I am working on ways to show that there is a common thread running through humanity...Then we need to provide services that will help create a healing environment so people can move forward.
Moab has 20 cases of COVID. Five active, 15 recovered. Most community members are being very careful. Wearing masks can help a lot, so we hope folks will do it willingly to help themselves and those around them. With so many states seeing surges, I wonder how long until we to into another shut down. Tourists are pouring in, as if nothing is wrong whatsoever. Is Rome burning or is someone cooking dinner?
Bike Skills Park. This has been a very sad time for the community. Many people feel a deep attachment to the section of the parkway that the city/county want to alter forever by grading it and removing trees to make way for a bike skills park that could be placed in other areas. This tranquil section of the parkway is a wildlife corridor, offers habitat in a world where wildlife habitat is shrinking, and is a riparian area, in a floodplain and a flood-way.
I have heard from artists, teachers, business owners, retired professionals, bicyclists, and others who are heartbroken about the very real possibility of this happening soon. I am still fighting it as much as I can, but this is one hard battle. What makes me sad is that we are robbing our children of an unspoiled area, a gift they can give to their children's children. What are we teaching kids when adults normalize destroying natural areas for playgrounds? Fingers crossed they will move this to a better location.
Homeless. There seems to be more homeless around lately. It looks like a few folks lost their housing and are back out on the street with the other chronic homeless. These folks are human beings, although they are often lumped together as one group of undesirables. I am working on ways to show that there is a common thread running through humanity...Then we need to provide services that will help create a healing environment so people can move forward.
Don't destroy this!
We lost another great one. Dean Nebergall, pictured here with Breezy, (with Carol Hoggard - who passed away 7/5/19 - in the background), passed away on 12/6/19. One of the kindest humans to walk the earth, we send love unending to Dean and to those who love him.