OCTOBER 2019, Does this little place matter?
Coffee with the President: A bit of a geography lesson. Those of you who live out here can check me to see if I get this right. I am still a relative newcomer to this lovely part of the world. You can notice a few things just by looking at the picture on the left. Blue dominates. "Micronesia" means tiny islands. Kathy and I live on the largest island in the region, Guam. Yet, it doesn't even show up on the map to the left, just blue. That blue not only dominates the map, it permeates the culture. For most of my life, I lived with people who who are close to the earth. The people here are close to the sea. If you look at the outline that marks what is called "Micronesia" and then let your eyes travel east (to the right) you'll notice that Micronesia and the continental United States are about the same size. But, go back to my first point; the land in Micronesia, all put together, is smaller than Rhode Island. S...