Every day I wake up hoping that this new day will be better than the last. We are kind of in a rut and every day is the same it seems. The fires keep raging out West, and we are keeping a constant eye on the weather. We have rain where we don’t need it and no rain where we desperately need it. We have a virus that just won’t go away and we still have people that think it is an over publicized hoax. People every day are dying that don’t need to die and we still have too many politicians that do not want to protect the public.

Living in Florida is always interesting. We have people that fight wearing a mask and a Governor that doesn’t seem to want to protect our children. We have a vaccine that appears to work but we have a Governor that would rather not prevent you from getting sick but treat you after you get sick. He seems to be ok with more people dying than should be as long as he keeps on getting that national news. He seems to want to make sure that Iowa voters do not forget his name. He even turns away money meant to help feed children. We are supposed to be a very Christian state but I never hear anyone talk about following Jesus. Children do suffer in Florida. Hey we are still having Trump Boat Parades here with boats decorated like an ISIS Toyota pickup trucks. We have a lot of people depending on Social Security voting for the very people that would take it away from them. People seem to not know how to vote their own interests here in Florida.

In some way Florida in one of the most beautiful states in the country. I have been to the northeast. I have been out west. I was raised in the Midwest. I have seen my share of natural beauty here in America. One of the most beautiful sites is the view you get of San Carlos Bay and Pine Island Sound when you are on the causeway driving over to Sanibel Island. My wife and I drive over there at least three times a week and I never tire of it. I have a little 17 foot power boat that we take out a couple of times a week. To see a Manatee swimming along the mangroves, to have a Ray almost jump into the boat, to see Dolphin playing right next to you are memories that I will take to my grave. These views and the weather is what brings people to the gulf coast of Florida. The State and the Federal Government should be doing everything in their power to protect these things and sadly they are not. There was an editorial from an Orlando paper that I read a while back as the green algae and the red tide had created like the perfect environmental storm here. I saw hundreds of thousand of dead fish. I saw a dead Manatee. They even had a huge Whale Shark wash up on the beach on Sanibel. In the editorial the writer said that if you treat your state like a toilet you can’t be surprised when it backs up. I have never read truer words.

I am sure everyone that reads this will have a most beautiful area that they will think about. The coast of Maine, the Black Hills in South Dakota or many of the other thousands of beautiful sites that we have in this country of ours. As you are reading this I hope you are thinking about the most beautiful sites you have seen. We need to be working to preserve these great sites, not only for ourselves but for the future generation that will come after us. We owe it to our great grandchildren that these sites are still here.

We have people in our government that don’t take care of the land like it they don’t take care of the people. You would think that the two are separate issues but it is the same group of politicians that think the climate change in not real and that the pandemic was just a political hoax. Our Governor DeSantis appears to be one of those politicians. Our Senators don’t seem much different and my congressman can only say the Biden should resign.  None of them seem remotely interested in saving people’s lives or saving the environment. I have not seen a real plan. They just stand on the sidelines and throw stones at anything any Democrat wants to do. We do not need politicians standing on the sidelines. We need them on the huddle trying to figure on how to defeat that pandemic. We need them on the playing field helping us combat climate change. We need them in the team meeting trying to help figure out how we are going to save the environment. Talk is cheap and we have a lot of cheap talk here in Florida. How is your State?