sending updated messages direct to your mobile device. To get started text “hello” to 877–607–6IOP (467) or visit iop.net. Next Coffee with the Mayor: Friday, Sept. 27, 9-10 a.m. at the Isle of Palms Marina. Thank you for the opportunity to serve! See you around the island. Phillip Pounds, Mayor IOP 843-252-5359 ppounds@iop.net hope you had a great summer – now on to one of my favorite seasons on our island – fall! I have written in past messages about community and what that can mean or feel like. I came across an article recently that captured beach living well. It is from The New York Mayor’s Message There’s no place like the beach or IOP for that matter By Phillip Pounds Mayor, Isle of Palms CIVICS I IslandVibesIOP.com 11 Two Island Marina at Breach Inlet Boat Slips For Sale Matt DeAntonio | Carroll Realty, Inc. | 843.532.6288 Times, The Morning on June 24. The article, written by Melissa Kirsch, is titled “Consider the Beach.” Here is an excerpt from that article: The beach for me these days is participatory performance art. I love to see people unfurl their beach selves under the sun’s spotlight. To see how they’re adorning themselves, the music they’re blasting, the way they stake their territory, their peculiar rituals and accessories. I like the community aspect of it all: Your music is, for better or worse, my music, for you are my neighbor for one brief day and this is our pop-up neighborhood. I like to eavesdrop on people’s conversations and observe how they discipline their children and, if they seem interesting, offer them some of my chips. We’re all in this together, I think, in my dopey sun-drunk stupor. Today, we live here, not in our houses or apartments with their climate control and Wi-Fi and roofs, but here, outside, exposed to the elements and the gulls and the gaze of others. Today, we agree, life really and truly is a beach, or at least this beach, and here we are, living that life as extravagantly as we can manage. We get to live here and visit the beach all the time! What a great community we get to call home. There are many ways to enjoy the beauty of our island and all it has to offer including venues to meet new neighbors or renew acquaintances. We have several great events coming this fall that I encourage you to take part in and feel the sense of community our city offers. Updated and additional information can be found at iop.net and you can receive updates by signing up for Sunnie – the city’s AI platform for
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