A splash park, a dog park, more signs, . . .

If people read the bumper stickers, they don’t understand them. Local headlines for the past few years have been packed with stories of community visioning sessions. All kinds of departments have master plans which involve community outreach in which people are asked to dream big without regard to funding. Then, elected representatives are put in a position of looking like ogres if they say there isn’t enough money to go around and fill all the tall orders in all the master plans. Any global thinker the least bit acquainted with physics accepts that our physical universe is one of finite resources, and the game of life boils down to Buckminster Fuller’s ambition of putting available resources in the best places – not cultivating insatiable appetites to pillage your brother for senseless whatnots.