“The more neighbors who know one another by name, the fewer crimes a neighborhood as a whole will suffer. A child born in a state whose residents volunteer, vote and spend time with friends is less likely to be born underway, less likely to drop out of school, and less likely to kill or be killed than the same child. No rich or poor born in another state whose residents do not.”
“Malcolm Gladwell, in his book Outliers, the story of success, he says this, he tells the story of the remarkably healthy people of Roseto, Pennsylvania. So researcher and physician Stuart Wolfe discovered Roseto held a medical mystery. Even though the residents received 41% of their calories from fat, they smoked heavily, and they struggled with obesity. Hardly anyone had heart disease. Furthermore, said Wolfe, there was no suicide, no alcoholism, no drug addiction, and very little crime.”
“I did a little searching on nextdoor.com, which is a great resource, you can check it out, and found that we have just over 1,400 households in our neighborhood, south of points. So 1,400 households, you know, moms and dads and kids and just whatever those households are, 1,400 of them. As I did some research into one of the neighborhoods Jesus lived in, one of the towns he lived in, Capernaum had about 1,500 people total during Jesus' day.”
“Some of y'all are going to get those summer passes. My skin can't take that. So I come to Twilight Swim. That's when our family comes, 6 to 8 p.m. on weeknights. I think Saturdays as well. Three bucks for the adults, two bucks for the kids. Cheap way to have a lot of fun, get the right amount of sun, right amount of pool.”
“Hey, here we are at Sojourner Truth Park, a little-known park here in Manhattan, Kansas. So if some of the other parks are full or busy, come on out here or just come on out here. There's plenty of picnic tables way over there, playground right here. So I didn't discover this until I lived in Manhattan for 18 years. And so here it is, Sojourner Truth Park.”
“It's always pretty windy up here. There was one time we came up with my oldest son, Benjamin. My hat flew off and he flipped out. I'll always remember that. But they love coming up here, we love coming up here. Oftentimes, I'll just sit on that rock and look out and think, pray.”
“We wanted to highlight quickly the Nothing Festival, June 1 and 2, I believe. You know, when all the college kids go home, and we just hang out and do basically nothing. So, I mean, it's pretty much, it's an event, some call it a non-event, where we just do nothing. Find it on Facebook, and maybe you'll find us out here doing nothing.”
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