You know, I was thinking last night that maybe it is time to tear Gary Roosevelt down...maybe it time for a new beginning like Eckhart Tolle talks about in his new book "A New Earth".

I am one of the happiest people around when I say that I Love Dear Ole Roosevelt, just like our city...maybe it is time to tear Roosevelt down and rebuild it from the ground up, Gary is suppose to be the city on the move or at least that was the motto, right?...maybe we need to move towards a one city High School and then take the Gifted and Talented Program, The Performing Arts and the Career Center and move all of them into one building.

We need a school that is state of the art, something like Chesterton, Merrillville, East Chicago Central, Crown Point, Lake Central and a host others...maybe that will be the new pride in the city...I mean I know how I treat a new car when I first get it...when all the gadgets are new and the leather still smells fresh. Doesn't new things make you feel better and attract other new things? What about the students the kids...do you think they would feel better and have a better since of pride when going to school and or rooting on their sports team to victory.

Eckhart Tolle has a quote about life in his book (pg 41), "A New Earth"... "Life will give us whatever experience is the most helpful for the evolution of our consciousness". How do we know that this is the experience that we need? Because this is the experience we are having at this moment. It doesn't get any easier to explain than that, does it? Is this the experience that we need to progress Gary into something that it could be and should be?

Think about this and chime in with your thoughts...Gary Roosevelt has alumni living all the over the world, case in point, I sent out an announcement yesterday to a few friends about 10-15, that I had in my friends list and it has reached across the Atlantic Ocean in less than a day...that got me to thinking...what if the news of a city on a move did the same thing...Gary could again be the talk of the world...The little city that could and did.

Lets talk about this.

Ryan Hodge is a graduate of Gary Roosevelt c/o 1990.