"I'm leaving for treatment.... " he said. The big addiction in Cortez is the addiction to the poverty profiteering industry. We need to switch our addiction to helping people Bridge themselves out of poverty....

Addiction is a symptom of poverty. Poverty is a highly treatable condition. 

The most deadly addiction in Cortez is the addiction to the poverty profiteering industry. We need to switch our addiction to helping people Bridge themselves out of poverty. Hundreds of cities are doing it. Bridges out of poverty. Circles USA, asset-based Community Development, getting ahead. Go to the library, find the stack. https://www.facebook.com/share/p/18tMZVGPdx/

"I'm leaving for treatment.... " he said..... [this in the vestibule of the rec center this morning early.] 

Over on the west side of Denver. And then I'm not coming back. I'm going to learn to understand my addiction.

B*******, I said. Yes, don't come back, didn't judge McLaren tell you that in loving way? He nodded yes.

Pinon project, judge padilla, judge McLaren are all helping me get into treatment. I told them that's what I want.

I said, this understanding your addiction stuff is b*******. Someone can tell me to understand how not to breathe, but you know what, it's not going to work. I'm going to breathe. I have to.

We have to satisfy our addiction we humans, more than we have to breathe or eat. It is irresistible the urge. To satisfy our neuroreceptors.

He knows me well. One cold February evening a year ago early in the morning I handed him some hot chocolate. He cried. He said, this is love. He was right.

We've got this addiction b******* all wrong I said. I have the biggest high of anyone I've ever seen in cortez. Regardless of whether it sounds preachy, the natural high for an adult is to be Community to others.

When I come on strong like this I constantly scan the face and body language of the individual I am lovingly haranguing, to see the slightest sign of objection at which point I would back off. He was involuntarily smiling.

What you need to spend the 90 days doing is to begin addicting yourself to a better high, being community. If you have kids think about them. If you have family, think about your leadership impact, that it hasn't been what you want it to be, that you can make it what you want to be. Follow through on what you're telling me, don't come back to Cortez, everyone that loves you is telling you the same thing, don't come back to cortez, there is no future for anyone here.

I parted by saying, if I'm saying b*******, you tell everyone. But what I'm saying is right, spread it around. He smiled lovingly and involuntarily.

Emailed this morning to everyone in the Cortez power structure as it applies