Rockwater Realty

05/26/2026

05/18/2026

Life is not going to be the fairytale
that we once believed it could be.
Time has a way of showing us the realities
that we will encounter along the way.
We reach an age where we've had to
grow up and realize there will be disappointment.
However, we need to keep hope in our hearts.

Don't stop working towards that happy ending.
Build your own little castle and plant roses
around your door.
Create a beautiful safe and happy place for
the future generations that enter your life,
And never stop them from believing in happy ever afters.

Don't allow past mistakes and disappointments
of yesterday to blight the hope of tomorrow.
Allow the children to indulge their dreams of a bright and kind future.
Teach them positivity and always shine a light.
In making a brighter future for others, we are also creating one for ourselves ..

🖋️C.E. Coombes
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Artist Credit; Jas Clip Arts

05/12/2026

Place is kind of a big deal!

Place is something we are interacting with 100% of our
waking hours and even a good portion of our sleeping hours.

It affects every single aspect of our life. Our mental,
physical, emotional, social, emotional and financial health
are all heavily dictated by the places in which we spend our
time.

Whether or not we have friends and acquaintances is a
factor of our surroundings. If walking is a regular part of our
daily routine is a function of place. The food we consume is
large dictated by where we live.

Our happiness, our joy, our meaning, all factors of place. Beauty, whether or not we get to witness beauty on a regular basis is dependent on place.

When you start to think about how we go about living our
lives, place is kind of a big deal.

05/08/2026

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04/21/2026

A couple of weeks back on a community visit, someone asked me: “Should cities adopt policies to grow population, jobs, and investment?”

Emphatically, no.

Growth for growth’s sake is a failed policy.

Not all growth is good. If I told you that you’d be better off if you gained weight, you’d have questions. Because you could gain weight by eating garbage and sitting on the couch, or you could gain it by strength training and eating well.

Same weight gain. Completely different outcomes.

Cities are no different.

Paving new roads doesn’t make your community better. Adding more national chains doesn’t make it better. Building another vinyl subdivision on the edge of town doesn’t make it better.

Those are growth strategies, not improvement strategies.

And honestly, who does sprawl expansion actually benefit? National chains and national builders. Not residents.

I’ve never seen a cheap ugly building make anyone’s life better. I’ve never seen a fast food joint make a neighborhood stronger. And I’ve never seen sprawl development make a community more self-reliant, sustainable, or resilient.

Cities should want to get better, not just bigger.

Bigger does nothing for residents. Better always does.

Every decision a city makes should be filtered through one question: Will this make our community prettier, stronger, more self-reliant?

Because your town is the sum total of its decisions. Every time you choose growth over quality, your place gets a little worse and your lives get a little sadder.

Abandon growth policies.

Adopt improvement policies.

Your town should get better, not bigger.

04/01/2026

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02/13/2026

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