The community had a lot to be thankful for this week.

One community member thanked everyone on the Listserv for suggesting that her friend not try to cross a flooded river. Several other members expressed gratitude to someone for sharing a photo of a rainbow. Another community member was thanked for sharing a fantasy. Yet another community member thanked others for explaining how a bug got into their house. Others were thanked for recommending a local veterinarian.

A seagull found on Black Point Beach needed a ride to Jenner or Santa Rosa, whichever direction drivers were heading.

Community members were especially thankful for those who shared their thoughts on the recent election results.

Despite an abundance of gratitude, it was difficult to navigate the post-2024 election sociopolitical currents on The Sea Ranch Listserv. One community member said that U.S. voters are uninformed and that they’ll likely get what’s “coming to them.” Another community member, a self-described moderate conservative minority at The Sea Ranch, said that the election went the way it did because the American population (like them) is tired of that whole civil rights thing. Someone else explained a Venn diagram where all Americans are Americans, some Americans are patriots, patriots might not be racists or sexists, but some racists and sexists are patriots, and ultimately, none of this matters because everyone in the Venn diagram is American. Yet another member noted that the liberal elites aren’t conscientious of the concerns of redneck evangelical racists and that most political coverage found on the radio was unlistenable and trite.

Was Biden spending too much or too little? Who’s really benefiting from inflation, anyway?

Nobody seemed to agree on whether the election system is solid or not.

One community member said that the 2024 American election result is best described geometrically, as a pyramid. At the top are some Democrats who “write checks for services,” and at the bottom are more Republicans who “receive checks” for those services.

Someone said that crime in San Francisco is much worse than the statistics show or what San Francisco residents actually experience.

The Sea Ranch was described as a community of wealthy individuals several times. But nobody seemed to find it strange that, if we are so wealthy, one-third of homeowners rent their properties on a short-term basis to complete strangers. Or why there’s so much resistance to small increases in monthly HOA dues. Or why everyone thinks the PO boxes at The Lodge are so flippin’ expensive.

Speaking of the post office at The Lodge, one community member was unable to pick up two posters that were inadvertently delivered to The Lodge post office by a private carrier. The post office employee said that a new Sea Ranch Lodge policy had been set in place: all mail delivered accidentally to the post office had to be returned to the sender and could not be relinquished to the Sea Rancher (not without a PO box, at least). No exceptions allowed. Everyone agreed that the employee was wise to resist their neighborly instincts and follow the policy. The Sea Ranch Lodge management is famous for its fickle displays of dominance and humiliation toward its staff.

One of The Sea Ranch Reader editors was relieved that nobody on the Listserv ever recommends the PO boxes at the perfectly pastoral Stewarts Point post office.