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Dear BART people;

I know this sounds weird, but I’m not writing to complain, and I’m not being sarcastic. I just wanted to let you know that I think the system you have of charging $1 for a day of parking your car at the BART stop lots is GENIUS. Whoever came up with that idea deserves a prize. It is so efficient in that it only allows BART customers to park there (because you have to buy the ticket inside the station), it only costs the reasonable fee of $1, and it’s free at other times of the day when there isn’t a rush. SO SMART.

Thanks be to God and you BART folks that the Bay Area is such a great place to live.

The York Center Green Fair I spoke at last weekend made it into local news, the Lombard Spectator, in a cute little story about my Pastor Christy Waltersdorff. Isn’t she adorable!

 “This congregation is very involved in a lot of environmental issues,” she said. “If we believe God created the world and gave us stewardship of it, I can’t imagine why people would not be out taking a stand.”

The Green Fair featured presentations on various environmental topics and also highlighted the church’s commitment to reduce CO2 emissions by 80 percent by the year 2050, said Loren Habegger, a church member and the person Waltersdorff credits with coming up with the idea of a Green Fair.

That’s really quite an impressive commitment.  Too bad this climate crisis we’re living in will require nothing less.

So, if you wear a helmet while you bike, drivers are likely to drive closer to your prone body, riding around town at their mercy. If you don’t wear a helmet, your cranium will be crushed if one of those more-distantly-driving cars careens into you.

What are you to do? You’ve got to wear a helmet - who wants to be the doofus that parents warn their kids not to be like? But you certainly wish that drivers would be more respectful and safe. Is there any way to win? - besides giving in and joining the problem, by driving?