Opinion

*Editor's note: a July 8, 2022 Letter to the Editor authored by Linda Baker, of Pinedale Pollinator Positive, and published by the Pinedale Roundup may have led readers to believe Baker is a member of the Sublette County Mosquito Abatement District No. 1. Baker is not a board member.

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Farewell from the editor.

I find it amazingly ironic that we live in a world that labels any type of compulsion as wrong and bad behavior then delivers you as a lesser person. An addiction is an urge to do something that is hard to control or stop.

Hello Sublette County, this is Albert Sommers reporting to you from interim work of the 66th Legislature.

He has truly been a man for all seasons.

Father’s Day is coming soon, though wouldn’t most women tell you that Father’s Day is every day to some extent?

Over the course of the last 13 years I have been privileged to serve in the Wyomingites of House District No. 22 during four legislative sessions. In those eight years, I worked to represent the people of Teton, Lincoln and Sublette counties with an eye toward fairness and policies that benefited all of my constituents.

I believe that all lives are much too exhibiting with vast and different qualities and aspects while being alive with contradictions to be safely categorized for unsecured safety. Because of this, we place a plethora of labels to contain the chaos of what is now, manipulated life.

People do crazy things. And I don’t mean try a different barbeque sauce, lie about eating a bag of chips or allow a grocery store to select and substitute groceries, though that’s becoming the norm.

Like most people, my Tuesday was a regular day – until it wasn’t.

Everywhere I look I see people seemingly doing their very best to make sense of this overwhelming reality in some degree of struggle. I see this and wonder if the path they’re struggling with is truly their own, or are they stumbling along the path of others?

There’s a long list of things I never want to do again and having hemorrhoid surgery is front and center.

I was mesmerized by the unanswered questions that derive from the thought of freethinking as the words break forth. Germinating again, with controlling filters and direction as the crowds look into the air with no concern, unaffected with tinker’s damn.

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