Autumn

Once again. The transition. There will be all the normal patterns and exchanges of fall. With it many of us change wardrobes, jobs, habits, destination. Some parts are familiar with repetition like the falling leaves and common annual cliches falling unbidden and blown away. There is for me though always some anxiety and excitement for the change. If winter weens us then fall is our first few days of preschool (or for some collage).
Life for me now is one big feasibility study. Time to strip this thing down and get a naked look at trucks and branches. I heard that 90 plus percent of WV has been deforested at one time or another. This is no pristine or untouched wilderness. This is more like the weeds that grow up after a cultivated field has been abandoned. Is abandoning the fields our idea of engaging the natural process? Ha! Participation requires us to observe, model, implement and test new strategies for our own lives and for interfacing the "natural world" that surrounds us.
So good luck everyone, with your plans for a new season. Plan on amazing (it's the new minimum).

Monday Morning

It's fall in Thomas. Or lets just say, it's getting there. The foliage is still intact for the most part but some trees are melting into a burst of impossible beauty that hammers my chest like an ocean wave. Be careful on the roads as the awe-salting of the eyes has the most impact while the background green sets of the entrepreneurs of fall. The transition shows us what is coming.

Celebrate

This is a blog about Thomas WV and about my experience living here and about telling stories that shape tomorrow. The question that occupies my mind has to do with the story of Thomas and my story and all the stories that make up the very real and tangible thread of experience.

Yesterday I spent the afternoon celebrating a wedding with old friends. Many of whom have moved away from Tucker County to find work. They express to me a desire to come back here and live but worry that there are not jobs here to support them. I agree. Many of us who live here derive out incomes from a mixture of tasks, part time jobs and occasional commissions. I wonder if or how we can see this changing. I wish for my friends back.

I am committed to actualization in my life and believe in the potential of Thomas-Davis and Tucker County, WV and the world to initiate strategies that will transform and elevate the human experience. If Thomas has a seed I'm interested to see what grows when we water it.