Upper Peninsula Living Looks Bright

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Upper Peninsula Living Looks Bright
Friday, January 4, 2008
by Michaeleen O'Sullivan, UPfirst feature writer
Photos by Todd Carter, UPfirst photographer

Thursday night sunset, Forestville, Marquette Township

Marquette, MI--For those of us fortunate enough to be living in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, life today looks very bright. Most of us survive relatively sheltered from disasters, wars, and misfortunes many people in other parts of the world face.

The UP remains almost unchanged through generations. Here we live mostly in joy and peace, and we relish our large wilderness amplified by our small population. We pray for our brave service men and women, and we grieve our dear losses together.

If you are one of the happy residents of the Upper Peninsula, you probably live much like most other joyful Yoopers. We embrace the outdoors with reverence and dedication, we believe strongly in personal freedom, we give thanks for our blessings daily, and we always choose quality of life over quantity of material.

Yoopers are not perfect, of course. We sometimes suffer, even here in paradise, with intolerance, hypocrisy, ignorance, isolation, greed, and other weakness.

But mostly we are a generous people who naturally and lovingly navigate the shallow, the deep, and the dense.

Upper Peninsula Sunset Thursday

Todd and I are thankful we chose to be Yooper transplants some 30+ years ago. Thank you, Upper Peninsula, for your abundant blessings today on this first Friday of the New Year 2008.

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