celery pond

With a new administration in Washington DC and an economy that has everyone wondering what’s ahead, it’s clear that our resolutions require a new focus. 

Re-evaluate things: first on the resolution list.  This means that lots of things that we thought were so important, are being tossed aside.  More pressing needs are surfacing ie. just living (whether that be in one home, or more).

The ambitious plans for the public lands around Celery Pond seem like a mirage as hard issues face every level of business operation - retail, tourism, real estate…and the list goes on.  The good news is that our habits are being forced to change and so too, our thinking.

Saving a wetland and the adjacent floodplains, with their automatic, natural filtration system, seems like accepting a gift from heaven.  Spending millions of dollars to open a channel and loose the wetland for boats and luxury craft is hard to visualize by contrast. 

The Pond Advocates, who have been so loyal in their efforts, know that their continuing support to save the wetland is the way to go. 

Honoring the migrating bird population that visits South Haven, and the other wildlife that uses the Pond, is as important as greeting every visitor with a smile who comes to share the magnificent shoreline and lands of South Haven.

We have such abundance around us - in the environment and the people.  Let’s move forward with a new focus to see what is really wondrous around us.