08/23/2026
A month before this photo was taken, I was recovering from a triple bypass, open-heart surgery. Days after we got home from the hospital, without us ever asking, our Navarro community organized a meal train and fed our large family for weeks. People showed up to serve us who I didn't even know yet, some of whom became real friends, and a few I still haven't met in person to this day. We had people praying for us we'd never spoken to! That's our culture. That's our tradition.
This is why I love this community, and why I feel so connected to it. Alexis de Tocqueville wrote about exactly this almost 200 years ago, how Americans, more than any people he'd studied, constantly organize to serve one another without being asked, without government involvement, just because it needs doing. At our best, this is what's right about this country, and Navarro lives it!
This is what the Heart of Geronimo looks like to me.