01/29/2026
The time has come for businesses to step up and speak out about what is happening nationally in our country. Those who know me personally know that I’m a moderate, fiscally conservative but liberal on social issues. I have voted both Democrat and Republican over the years. I believe in respecting and listening to everyone and trying to engage with others about our similarities more often than our differences—i enjoy being able to have a good respectful debate. I truly believe that we all have or want to have a shared humanity—to love ourselves, our family, and our country. That if you put two people on a desert island with profoundly opposing views that they would figure out how to compromise and survive, and would be better for it.
Some of us, myself included, believe that there is a higher calling, religious for some, more ethical for others, to love thy neighbor and to treat them as we would want to be treated ourselves. As someone who has studied abroad and grown up in a home hosting many international exchange students, the world is my home, and my embrace is very wide for those I love and care about. It doesn’t have borders, it doesn’t care about skin color, it doesn’t care about religion.
So, that lead up is all to say that although borders have a place, I think that allies are our strength as a country, immigrants are our neighbors and both our patriotic past and future, and we need to all collectively speak up to insist that our government returns to respecting international and US law. That law enforcement officers at all levels must be held to the same high standards to which those at the local level are accountable, so we can have respect for them and feel safe in our homes and our cities. So that those who follow the law have nothing to fear and those who observe those enforcing the law also have nothing to fear. That government on all levels must respect the Bill of Rights. Those protections have been our tried and tested guide since 1791, with some interpretations to adjust to modern life. Let’s all re-read them and try to follow them. https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/bill-of-rights-transcript.
I support a national strike to impress upon corporations and our highest officials, who have played an impressive game of chess with all three branches of government and the military with the support of many large corporate interests and PACs, that We the People are ultimately where the power and our economy start, and where they end. Collectively we have enormous power to affect the change that needs to happen. And we can use that power without waiting for an election.
So, that’s where I stand, and where I will continue to stand. Trying to look forward to a brighter future this morning. Beautiful functional new kitchens, bathrooms, mudrooms, master suites, additions, ADUs and gardens always are on offer here at Studio Bergeron, but today we pause for some politics. Not the kind that feel like a dirty word, no, the kind from which the word derives—the Greek word “polis” meaning citizen body. We are politics, we are The People. Please, go be political and make your own voices heard.
Warmly,
Lisa
