LETTER FROM THE PUBLISHER

from Edmond Life & Leisure - At Home in Edmond Summer 2020

by Edmond Life and Leisure

WAYS TO BRIDGE THE GENERATION GAP

Page 12 At Home in Edmond Summer 2020 Letter from the

Publisher

WELCOME TO SUMMER AT HOME IN EDMOND!

Changing your philosophy

Reading my daily dose of comics a few days ago brought me to one of my favorite comic strips, Peanuts. Old Charlie Brown was having his usual troubles when he told Linus that his philosophy of life used to be “I’m taking life one day at a time.” He told Linus that he was changing it to now being, “I’m taking life a half day at a time.”

After chuckling I decided my old friend Charlie Brown had just described what we are all going through with COVID-19 firmly in charge of our lives for the last several months. While our brave men and women in the hospitals and research labs are fighting the virus to take control and give us our lives back, we are stuck in a world of rapidly changing information and often times confusion, not to mention political grappling.

Twenty-twenty has been filled with a variety of challenges but I cannot think of a better place to live or better neighbors to be going through difficulty with than in Edmond. It is a major advantage to be in this community and trying to learn a new normal, at least for the time being. I have no doubt that things will improve, and our community will be better off from the struggle.

We will see tempers flare and arguments break out without a doubt but at the end of the day, Edmond folks will come together and help each other. We have seen it time and time again over the last century here in Edmond. I am 62 years old and do not feel like there has been a time in my years that we have really been challenged in the same way our parents and grandparents have been. I would call this COVID-19 challenge difficult for most of us but tragic to those that have lost their lives. We hope your family is keeping safe my friends.

Life does go forward trying to achieve the balance until a better solution comes along. One of those challenges is keeping our small businesses alive and well to survive getting to the other side of this virus. Our At Home in Edmond Summer edition celebrates many of those small businesses. We ask you to please patronize the businesses that are advertising in these pages. Save our magazine so that if you cannot use their services now, you will have their number handy for when you do need what they offer.

Please take time to care for one another. I have been blessed to have traveled the world and the one thing always comes through in any coffee shop in any town on this earth is that we all want the same things. We need to have decent jobs, a healthy family, and great communities. Edmond fulfills that last one and you and I can help take care of the other two. As much as I have traveled, Edmond is the only place I want to live.