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Moving Closer to Defining San Diego Civic Solutions

By Sanford Goodkin
March 29, 2004

Hi Gang......

We meet for the third time on April's first day, commonly called April Fool Day. We are reaching a point of departure, where this group of leaders will choose what to lead, whom to lead and how they can collectively cause San Diego to become thoroughly special-not just a beautiful place with great weather. We must begin thinking as if we were not blessed with a gorgeous bay, incredible climate, and impressive growth. We must disabuse ourselves of the pretentious "America's Finest City", unless we can prove to the multitude that we are.

The human mind is the greatest "computer" there has ever been. Why? Because it has more than memory; it has soul. Soul is the grand sum of all of God's blessings of heart, mind, and feelings. In addition, if there is sensitivity, compassion, passion and reasoning--then we have climbed the heights of our potential.

The mind is a wonderful thing to utilize, and not just in school. As adulthood accelerates the passing years, and attitude dictates satisfaction or impatience with things as they are, maturity sets in and we begin to realize or hope that we've found what we are destined to be "when we grow up". That is called wisdom and it knows no boundaries.

At that moment, we begin our journey to the destinations for which we were created; our spirit soars, our reach exceeds our dream; that's the way it is supposed to be.

It seems to me that we have a choice of becoming, in effect, satisfied zombies, or a special group of people who have formed an organization based upon thoughtfulness and action; that is when we arrive at solutions. We are at our beginnings, but our velocity will pick up from here and we will become a treasure for men and women who mean to make this place our gift to succeeding generations.

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