All posts categorized under ‘Food for Thought’

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Setting the Table

Posted on January 18th, 2012 by Richard. Categories: Food for Thought, Real Estate Perspective.

The last few years the market has been in a word…slower. Not awful as the media driven consciousness seems to think, just slower than normal. In America, we’re used to everything being terrific, perfect, always improving.  So when it’s not any of those, somehow that’s interpreted to mean it’s awful? I don’t think so, but it feels like there are a lot unfortunately who do.  The media is a huge

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Poll Position

Posted on November 8th, 2011 by Richard. Categories: Food for Thought.

The local elections today will finally decide who will be sitting in the Mayors Office here in the City-County Building early next year. It should be an event to celebrate but instead it’s more like a relief unfortunately. I get the feeling most of us can hardly wait for it to be over. It’s disappointing that the process doesn’t change much from elections in the past. You hear some lofty ideas to start

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Thinking Green

Posted on October 20th, 2011 by Richard. Categories: Food for Thought.

For me it was just the word Green that I had a problem with at first, as it seemed like the whole thing was too multi-faceted to be described by a a trendy one-word label. Impending doom from the hole in the ozone layer with polar caps melting? That just felt far-fetched at first until you really get the whole story from many different sources. But, that really is happening. I

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Enjoying the Ride

Posted on September 15th, 2011 by Richard. Categories: Food for Thought.

The goal is not to arrive at your destination…it’s just to enjoy the ride.

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Moving Forward

Posted on September 11th, 2011 by Richard. Categories: Food for Thought.

My posts normally have a community or real estate topic of some sort, or sometimes they are just meant to be silly. But today brought out a more thoughtful side I guess. I was thinking about the expression “time heals all wounds”. It’s one of those sayings that is particularly poignant today, 09-11-11. Some wounds are more grievous or touch more deeply and therefore take more time to process and move forward, but eventually