@mb Nope, Kim is not a family member. However, I feel her pain and pray she has as much support and love as I do.
Hey guys,
I know that I haven’t posted much in the past few months. I have been fighting the town, trying to protect a piece of land that they are selling to an industrial developer.
I have been to meeting after meeting about this. I had so many people standing up and telling the town to leave it be. The town council did not care. I was even able to show a 14.8 million dollar property value loss for surrounding taxpayers. They still voted to sell the property for 2.2 million dollars.
it was rigged before we ever even walked through the doors.
now I am heartbroken. I feel as if I have let the community down. I feel as if I failed the tree and animal spirits that live on the land. I have spent much of the day in tears with my heart being torn asunder.
Everyone keeps telling me I did a wonderful thing. I spoke up for those who would be silenced. I gave hope to neighbors with no voice. But I feel as if I have let them all down.
I realize I am grieving right now and eventually light will shine again. But I can’t see anything but the heartbreak right now.
thanks for listening.
Update: I spoke to my doctor yesterday. She refilled the muscle relaxer and referred me to spine specialist next Monday. I had another round of emergency room-level pain today, and came away with a Toradol shot (that barely worked), lidocaine patches, and three-times higher dosage of Gabapentin. I also now have muscle spasms of random strength and duration in my right arm that almost look like Parkinson's when they happen. Surgery seems to me to be both imminent and unavoidable. Good thoughts/healing energy/prayers welcomed if you're so inclined. 🙃
@tgraf66 🙏🏻💜🪽💚🪽💜🙏🏻
The Serenity Prayer comes to mind. You tried. This was grossly unfair.. Your actions still uplifted all you tried to help.
.Your sorrow is earned and shows the depth of your love and caring. You did your best and that is all anyone can do. In these trying times, you tried. I am proud of you.
I hope you are proud of yourself for both your efforts and caring. Maybe you have already done this but two environmental organizations that might offer some guidance, are the Sierra Club, who sued and sued successfully to prevent coal fired power plants from being build, and the Nature Conservancy which buys land in order to preserve it. It may be too late but at this point suing someone, town council or whomever is probably the only next step. It would take a big player to pull this off.
One would like to see the bank balances of the council members after the vote to sell; one could imagine them plumper.
Oh, and find out what negative consequences the industrial site will generate; you might find a ally that way. Will it threaten farms? Water quality? Birds? The Audubon Society could be another potential source of help. Organizations have fought these battles before so maybe one or more would be interested.
Are you in Florida? If so, rough spot to look for honest dealings, I hear, especially around development. Carl Hiaasen is an author and conservationist who cares passionately about Florida and has written novels about corruption there. See if you can find him; he will know the ropes. Are there investigative journalists who would be willing to look into the sway of the developer?
Anyway, just ideas...bless your warrior spirit.
@raincloud our entire argument was the negative impacts on the surrounding community. We were able to show that the negatives definitely outweighed the positives. They ignored everybody. They didn’t even factor anything in other than their presentation (because the town, not the developer was the rezoning applicant).
@april Same with the battle we lost here in my area 😢 It hurts and we grieve.
So many dealing with pain and grief. My heart hurts for all of you. I took great comfort in reading Cindy's most recent reply on this subject, as my husband Greg, passed on Sunday morning after a battle with Leukemia. It is all too fresh, and it is just plain weird to be in this situation. Praying that when it all sinks in, I am able to hold it together.
Thank you for being here.
Pat