REAL VIEW GET REAL!

By Chris Murphy

falling over your coffee table, living in or creating a parallel word is both silly and dangerous. Besides knocking over furniture, pets, and ignoring friends or events, you lose track of intelligent dialog on how we live together as a community. For 2023 now, more than ever, we must rediscover community, working WITH each other, in person and solving big problems and creating exciting ideas. Most of all big ideas are just that until we bring them to life, cause! To become a donor and to have your family or company name proudly displayed on the walls of Modesto Children’s Museum, email jake@modestochildrensmuseum.org for details on how to donate.

Go KAT Go

KAT Country 103 FM presents Country Chaos bringing Drake Milligan from America’s Got Talent, Kolby Cooper, and American Idol season 19 champion Chayce Beckham to the State Theatre on February 21st doors at 6 pm show starts at 7 pm. It’s Farm Fresh Country with some of the newest faces in Nashville. A portion of the proceeds benefits St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. Come out and enjoy a night of fantastic music and support a great cause simultaneously! Tickets are $15-$20 at www.thestate.com or the box office.

DISCLAIMER! ModestoView is created by real people, writing real words and taking real pictures. There is no AI cheating here and the local events we talk about in these pages are not virtual or digital, but things you can really do, created by real local people who create real local events that need you, in person to be there.

Our world is changing fast, but is it real or is it fake. Is there a real world out side or is it all imaginary? Now more than ever, we need to trust what is real, what we can count on and surround ourselves with people we can trust and count on. AI portraits are all over social media. Computer images pulled from the global internet from someone else’s work. ChatGPT is coming the new conversational Q & A. Quick answers all build on the world and language of others.

Meta what? VR? Take those goggles off and go outside. Besides looking goofy or

Get on a city commission, join your neighborhood association, take your ideas to your local city councilperson. We have a great city council right now that is poised to take a lot of action. You can’t do this with VR goggles, it is something we have to do together, with our sleeve rolled up. This is how we change Modesto for the better in 2023. There are great ways that the online community intersects with real life like the Alice In Wonderland escape that came to downtown Modesto last year and the upcoming Smurf’s Great Escape on February 25th. www.cluedupp.com/products/smurfsmodesto Be real and communicate with each other. Sit and talk in person and reach out to local people via email.

Have an idea? Tell us at info@modestoview.com Idea for the city? You can email the entire city council and Mayor Zwahlen with this ONE email address council@ modestogov.com