It’s been a whirlwind of a weekend, family and friend visitations, a big birthday (whoo hoo!), and a town event (not as big as one would have hoped, but still sizeable). Many hats in many rings (many rings on one hat?). We have survived and are now on our ‘weekend’ which also happens to be a nationalist holi-day (can you tell we have little interest in celebrating it?!). Technically (apparently and parenthetically) it is still someone’s birthday week…so we will be continuing some celebrations in that realm.
The Great Race was good enough. We thought the cars and the concept were neat but there was little energy generated to really make it a cool event. I think we are still post-pandemic or something because folks don’t seem to want to work together or communicate, it is all very satellite and self-serving. We think there was a missed opportunity here by all of the organizers to really create something fun and spectacular for both the Great Race and the town (I’d say maybe next time, but this was the 2nd time). Our faith in this kind of momentum for this little downtown might be faltering. And maybe it’s like this all over (some say, but then others say) but it doesn’t have to be. Some places are figuring out that if they work together to help each other’s needs, everyone gets lifted up. We would like to be in that kind of space-place.
But for now, we will keep working toward creating that space-place. We are finding our people and making great connections, we just wish it was with the downtown, too. The more, the merrier. Our community is the one that shows up, and we are so very grateful for those folks and businesses that do.
It’s a lot like the homestead — when we came here, there were things growing we didn’t expect (and were delighted by) and there were many things we brought to make this the homestead we wanted it to be. Some things thrive and some didn’t survive but we’re grateful every day for the surprises and gifts that keep showing up. As long as we keep putting in the work, we know we are learning and that is the barometer of our success.
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