CREATE!

<p>Sitting at his desk Fernando thought back on his failed printing business and sighed. Was everything in his life like this? Having an alcoholic, and abusive step father had once defined his life. Now, still in his mid thirties he had spent some of the previous years of his life blaming everything on the circumstance this man had obviously put him in.</p> <p>As a teenager he’d taken up skateboarding, a good excuse to get away from the house and even better for explaining bruises that showed up every couple weeks at this man’s hands. However, when he turned 18, and was on his own, skateboarding, at least in this town, put him into a culture of drugs and illegal activity that all too much reminded him of his step dad. Fernando chose instead to pour himself into his job at a small town paper.</p> <p>It was weird that this little paper still even existed as most news was now found on social media and You Tube. However, his tiny town was generally older, and the old folks still picked up the “free rag” supported by local business ads at the local market, gas station and pizza joint.</p> <p>When Mr Smith asked him if he’d like to take it over when he was retired last year, Fernando jumped at the chance! You see Fernando had long since CREATED that his step dad wouldn’t determine his future, and he would CREATE himself as a resilient, powerful man. He would CREATE his future, and would never again let what happened in his past determine his was and would become.</p> <p>It was right then that it hit him. He would RE-CREATE the failing paper into a printing business. However, with the population quickly turning younger, and with influx of “20 something” Californians the paper would soon no longer be viable. It was in this CREATION that he came up with a thought. Many of these young people had been moving out of California’s Silicon Valley. They had left the crazy, bloated, over-priced culture, and were looking for a new home. It was then that Fernando’s CREATION came into it’s own…</p> <p>He sold the old broken down pri