Reading this council journal took me back to a Tuesday evening in our own neighborhood. I showed up for a 6 o’clock meeting straight after work, still in my work clothes, only to find half the chairs empty — just like here, where Mayor Spade had Mrs. Farrao, Mr. Bonnell and Mr. Kelley present but no quorum, so everything had to be adjourned to 18 March. I remember sitting there for that hour thinking how much of community life depends on tired people simply showing up after a long day. That winter I was trying to take better care of myself on exactly those busy evenings — walking to meetings instead of driving, and keeping an eye on what I ate on days when dinner ended up being whatever was quickest after 7. I started checking my meals with a calories calcualtor
https://caloriecalculatorsa.com/ before those long evenings, and it quietly changed my routine: a proper lunch, a bottle of water in the meeting, and I had far more energy to stay involved. Small towns run on people who keep coming back — the least we can do is look after ourselves well enough to keep doing it.