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Blogs by D L Johnson
Sunday Mornings on the North Oregon Coast 3/11/2007 8:48:57 AM
Sunday mornings on the North Oregon Coast are pretty much the same all over the country. Folks go to church, go out to one of trendy restaurants for an over priced buffet, go home and watch television which is piped in by a fairly reliable cable service.
The advantage we have, at least more for me, is that the Pacific Ocean is one block from my apartment and if it was not raining, windy and horribly overcast with more rain coming in from the west, I could walk to the beach and ponder the ways of the world...ouch! thats way too deep for someone like me. So this is what I do.
Sunday morning typically starts with fresh coffee, Bob Schieffer on "Face the Nation," then Tim Russert on "Meet the Press" and ending with George Stephanopolis on "Sunday Morning" By then my blood pressure is up through the sky, my thought process shattered and basically frustrated with all the taking heads making prognostications about future events which they have no control. Then the bell in my head rings loud and clear.
I still have my hot coffee, but now I start focussing on issues I can have an effect on; for instance, how we will solve the Affordable Housing issue in our little town, how ecnomic development can be more effectively developed and try as I might wonder how the middle class of America can make a resounding come-back.
It is from those latter thoughts that I focus my attention and the payback is inspiration for future pens. Thats Sunday Morning on the North Oregon Coast.
Ciao for now.
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