The Star Room Rocks

Forgiveness in our family often means starting over and getting back to the relationships with each other that we depend on for emotional happiness and which we cherish. When we get angry with each other, we stay made, and often see that anger reflected in how we treat each other until we reach the point of apologizing and then forgiving.What...

Voting is important as it's the only way to make strides to put the people in place that reflect your values and priorities. It's hard sometimes to see how it can work when you look at your vote as only one. However, when you start to connect to the greater community and realize there are many people out there that share your same...

Last night we spent our outdoor time carving pumpkins. It shorter than it might have otherwise been because it was cold! However, we noted the extra special smell in the air that comes with cool weather/winter time. We smelled people burning wood, likely from making little outside fires to stay warm. Tonight we may try to make our own fire.

We have a community garden in our neighborhood that we recently reached out to help manage. We are hopeful that soon our family will get a planter box to manage.

We've been tracking the move from multiple ballot drop off boxes per county to one, even in those largest counties that have 1M plus people. Generally it also seems that with Texas restrictions on absentee voting to a very explicit and short set of requirements means that less people have access to absentee voting/mail-in voting.

The Star Room discussed core values and collectively our top 3 were: Family, Being Nice, and Ants....yep, Ants. Aunts, interestingly enough, was fourth.