2009 Countdown

Hi Orange Walkeños!

Let's bring in 2009 with a sweet bang loud enough for the rest of the year. We can show the world that the Spirit of Christmas CAN roll into the New Year seamlessly.

Next: Resolutions... are they keepers? Remember to also make a resolution for our pride...ORANGE WALK!

Catch the Spirit

Countdown Clocks
As Christmas Eve sets in, the tingles from deep within start bubbling up with increasing fervor. As from a champagne or a fizzy drink, the bubbles reach to the surface and pop out into smiles and greetings or kisses and dinners for those of kin. Here in our beloved town the buzz of the vehicles, the whisper of people, the shuffles of shoes, the blessing of a drizzle, and the shining of lights inside every home point to the fact that Christmas is alive and well. I have never doubted it.

And how can I forget, every year the sound of Christmas tunes bedazzle me. How about you?

Yesterday as I was driving around town, there was the inevitable rush towards decorating the exterior of the homes. 'People do not want to seem as if they do not care'... is my deduction. But who knows; the reasons may be lots and varied. What matters as Christmas Eve sets in is that the SPIRIT from deep within is caught when it matters most.

Christmas Day 2008 will never return.

It is up to the young of age and the young of soul to Catch the Spirit before you start thinking that Christmas is 370 days away!

In a future blog I will post pictures of Orange Walk during this Christmas time. But for now I will be bad... or daring if you want to call it that. YOU...Go OUT! Take a personal visual sampling of the lights and absorb the feeling. Then return and see what I have and say..."oh, I saw that!



This is just an INSIGHT to our Dreams for and of Orange Walk!

Wallpapers... Some Christmas Faves

This is not exactly Orange Walk based but who cares. They look good.
Want more...? Ask!

Christmas "Tree"... Tap into our Innovation

As December 25 draws nearer the Christmas Spirit must be nurtured at whatever expense. I shiver at the thought that our town is not being led to the utmost of this Christmas Spirit.

It is true that this Spirit is deep in all our hearts; not even scrooges can change that.

We need in Orange Walk a concerted drive (some might call it competition) towards showing off a beautiful Christmas Tree and decorations in all our homes and moreover out in our yards for all of us to feed off and get a better feel of that spirit.

Christmas might not be a tree nor all the beautiful lights but these surely do go a long way to making the food tastier and the air smell cleaner.

Our homes, streets, schools and parks must be adorned with lights and symbols that reflect the pride we have of our town and joy of the holidays. This decoration ought to look good also during the day.

We must challenge the artistically inclined to come up with the best arrangements. With the proper incentives, they can easily be motivated to ultimately beautify Orange Walk in this time of joy.

Sounds like an idea for next year huh?

This is what I met this year at our park... let us take this as an example of something not to tolerate.

And at night, well the light were not even on. It might have been best.

Genesis

Hello there, fellow citizens of our beloved Orange Walk Town and friends in the rest of the 'small' world.

This is the beginning of a new E-era in our town. Here, you will read the daily INSIGHT topics that are close to Orange Walkeños' hearts. The aim is to stimulate thinking, idea power and methods of action that will lead to our town being one that you will never want to leave.

Here we will not complain and we will not bicker. We will state the area of interest and discuss possible methods to solve the problem and let Orange Walk edge towards being our dream town... a lifelong task.

I will stir up topics and you will provide your Insights to it and suggest other topics.

The logging of ones thoughts on the web has become a very powerful way to make things happen and you can be part of it.

With the use of the digital media... videos, pictures, and words we can truly sway the powers that be. Ultimately the powers that be should be us the citizens.

WELCOME!