Re-Gain

One of life’s greatest wonders are trees. For over 27 years I have been fortunate living in the woods backing to the George Washington National Forest outside Edinburg, Virginia. Enjoying splendid forest cover I have developed a profound appreciation for trees. According to legend the first settlers thought they had found the “garden of Eden” and it was first called “Edenburg”. Years ago it was the home of this country’s first Civilian Conservation Corps in the center of the Shenandoah Valley. 85 years ago Franklin Roosevelt kick off one of his greatest New Deal programs here. Two million men were employed and planted almost three billion trees.  Camp Roosevelt was were this Depression era revitalization program ( http://www.ccclegacy.org/ Camp_Roosevelt_68B9.php ) . Further west from where I live is where the seventh CCC camp was built in Wolf Gap. It has been estimated that about 5 billion acres of forest landscapes have been degraded. The annual economic benefits of rest

If you choose to use your status and influence to raise your voice on behalf of those who have no voice; if you choose to identify not only with the powerful but with the powerless; if you retain the ability to imagine yourself into the lives of those you not have your advantages, then it will not only be your proud families who celebrate your existence but thousands and millions of people whose reality you have help changed. We don't need magic to transform our world; we carry all the power we need inside ourselves already; we have the power to imagine better.  - JK Rowling Vices today trump the values this country is blessed with.  Our President has been broadcasting unprecedented d angerous vices and failing to be the great deal maker.   Greater division in income reveals that 1% of the people are getting 82% of today’s wealth.    We have gone from being a world leader to a one of an unhinged bully.  True leaders embody values not vices.