Renee Stevens knows what it’s like to hit rock bottom. After a series of bad relationships and struggles with drug addiction, she returned to her home city of Vancouver with her three young daughters
— Read on www.columbian.com/news/2023/oct/28/voices-of-experience-those-whove-lived-on-streets-bring-empathy-to-organizations-helping-clark-countys-homeless/
Demand for Clark County’s retail space is strong and is continuing to be driven by local, regional and national retailers wanting to set up shop in new spaces like The Waterfront Vancouver.
— Read on www.columbian.com/news/2023/oct/27/clark-county-retail-space-continues-to-be-in-high-demand/
I try to keep my reading intake broad and inclusive attempting to mind adages such as:
“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.”
Often attributed to Aristotle, yet, perhaps the, “earliest that this quotation appears in print is in Religion and the Pursuit of Truth (1959) by Lowell Bennion,” (Famous Misquotations: It is the Mark of an Educated Mind… | Atkins Bookshelf (wordpress.com)
“Intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time.”
(Fitzgerald, The Crack Up).
Incidentally, The Crack Up is on my to read next list – took forever to find a great, old paperback copy!
However, after reading about the Firmly Planted Action Organization stating in the area, including representatives from the We the Governed group, I initially thought to start a, “Freely Planted, Free to Grow” organization with a second affiliation of another new group, the We the Free and Together group.
Ah America – well, I shall keep my ears open, and my mind also!