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Yes, friends, we’ve got trouble. Right here south of Miami. With a capital T, and that rhymes with P, and that stands for problems in Pinecrest.
We now shrug when someone powerful blatantly steps out of bounds—morally, socially, or otherwise. People say, “Don’t believe everything you read.” Eyes roll at mentions of law and rules. We have normalized the abnormal. Where once we cherished institutions and respected facts, now we see signs and ignore them. There has been a decay of public trust. We do our own research.
Listen people – you have been duped, fooled, tricked, hornswoggled and have fallen for the lies propagated by a grand conspiracy. Suddenly, you accept news from people in bleachers, lawn chairs and folding tables, not reliable sources. Everywhere we go, it’s the same story. At gyms, water coolers, bakeries – some folks bragging, others whispering, afraid.
Friends have slipped away and families have fallen apart. Everywhere it’s clear – eyes darting, voices muted, afraid to criticize it, because its participants are popular. Because they’re everywhere. Because it’s been sold as great and American. Let’s be honest: We are a nation divided. We are a city distracted. And not just red versus blue—no, this is far more worrisome.
Spouses, are you ignoring the telltale signs that occur when your significant other tells you early in the morning that they’re just going to the Muffin Tin, Lots of Lox, or maybe Milam‘s Market when instead they’re driving surreptitiously to Suniland Park or worse, Coral Pine Park doing something you know nothing about as they just slip away into picnic table conversation? At that picnic table where no one eats, what are those conversations about? Are they about lying, cheating, rules, freedom and governance?
Let’s be clear – it takes intelligence, judgment, focus, sensibility, reason, responsibility, brains and maturity to address such a burden. We have become unrecognizable, like zombies. We ignore this as if we are infected, resistant to a cure. Faith has gone by the wayside, endangering us all.
Pinecrest, it’s time we acknowledged that we are in a bad situation having succumbed to the temptation of something so seductive that we can no longer withstand it. This addiction has damaged many good people and numbed their souls. The deviousness of this magnetism is plain to see. As we all know in life, first it’s a little sip, and soon it’s a bigger gulp. That thing you first ignore soon becomes something larger. That first puff becomes a cigarette, then a habit, followed by a cough and before you know it, you are no longer able to breathe. The caliber of destruction we face is real.
None of this had to happen. Little Tommy, Jimmy, Jeannie, Juan, Maria, Diego – all of them should have mountains of things to look forward to – yet the contempt that people have for one another, the trampling of manners, politeness, gentility, have all gone out the window. You’d be wise to remember previous threats in olden times that soon needed major attention.
It didn’t have to be this way, but too many have pulled muscles, require physical therapy, rehab, are moving at half speed, wear knee braces, torn achilles heels and spend inordinate time at DICK’S Sporting Goods. Trouble!
So let’s not kid ourselves any longer, because yes, my friends—we’ve got trouble. Lots and lots of trouble. Right here south of Miami. With a capital T, and that rhymes with P, and that stands for pickleball.
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