Change, A Bit At A Time

I've been catching most of the new PBS series on Appalachia and the early parts talked about the formation of the mountains in terms of Geologic Time. That's real slow, and sometime life seems to mimic geology a bit. However, there's plenty of examples of how things are changing with regularity here. It ay be in smaller increments than we might think we want to see, but I think it probably happens about as quickly as we poor humans can handle it.

Look at the rapid progress on the Don Gibson Theater. The roof on the special event center is up, the exterior walls are almost done,and the concrete floor done, all in about 5 weeks.

Sidewalk tables, with snappy orange shade umbrellas are now outside Pleasant City Wood Fire Grill, and it's now possible to enjoy a glass of wine or beer with your dinner. And across the intersection the fountain is back on since the drought emergency has passed us at last.

We had a great turnout for our outdoor movie here in Uptown, with about 150 people enjoying a night out. And attendance seemed to be good for the opening day of the Foothills Farmers Market, along with a great Arts on the Square show this year. The crafts and fine arts exhibitors were very strong, very professional in quality and presentation, and it was great to see such an explosion of creativity on our fairly staid Court Square. Something's going on around here, right?

And when change doesn't proceed like this, I suspect it's people that just cant' handle it. Someone once told me "People don't change much, but organizations will always change." I guess my friend was right. There are people who do things, and I suspect that their continual action is a perpetual motion generator that helps things happen around them. Others drift through, and some are in between. But thank goodness change is a constant, according to physicists and science teachers.