{"id":9486,"date":"2015-05-25T02:01:59","date_gmt":"2015-05-25T02:01:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=9486"},"modified":"2015-05-25T02:01:59","modified_gmt":"2015-05-25T02:01:59","slug":"words-to-live-by-and-to-ponder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=9486","title":{"rendered":"Words to live by … and to ponder"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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I know this couple here in Amarillo. They’ve been active in civic and community affairs for a very long time.<\/p>\n

They’re both natives of the city and I am totally convinced they love it with all their heart.<\/p>\n

They sent me a short blog, which I have attached to this post:<\/p>\n

http:\/\/sethgodin.typepad.com\/seths_blog\/2015\/05\/a-fool-in-front-of-the-crowd-is-an-inevitable-side-effect-of-work-that-matters.html<\/p>\n

It seems to speak directly to the skeptics who harbor thoughts of some conspiracy lurking in the minds of those who have cobbled together a grand vision for the future of Amarillo.<\/p>\n

Here’s what it says. I attached the link so you might want to look at more items on the blog to try to size up the fellow who wrote these words.<\/p>\n

“When you do work that matters, the crowd will call you a fool.<\/em><\/p>\n

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“If you do something remarkable, something new and something important, not everyone will understand it (at first). Your work is for someone, not everyone.<\/em><\/p>\n

“Unless you’re\u00a0surrounded only by someones, you will almost certainly encounter everyone. And when you do, they will jeer.<\/em><\/p>\n

“That’s how you’ll know you might be onto something.”<\/em><\/p>\n

I think the author of this post is suggesting — while obviously not speaking to our local circumstance directly — that the vision being considered for Amarillo’s downtown goes perhaps a step or two too far for some of us to grasp immediately.<\/p>\n

Do I grasp it? Hardly. I’m just anxious to see what develops.<\/p>\n

We’ve heard some “jeering” lately from those who think the city is hiding something. They seem to think there’s more “there<\/em> there,” to borrow a portion of a phrase from Gertrude Stein.<\/p>\n

I will continue to hope for the best as the city moves forward with development plans they hope will transform the city’s central business district into something we don’t yet recognize.<\/p>\n

However, I strongly suspect we’ll know we’ve found it the moment we\u00a0see it.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n

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I know this couple here in Amarillo. They’ve been active in civic and community affairs for a very long time. They’re both natives of the city and I am totally convinced they love it with all their heart. They sent me a short blog, which I have attached to this post: http:\/\/sethgodin.typepad.com\/seths_blog\/2015\/05\/a-fool-in-front-of-the-crowd-is-an-inevitable-side-effect-of-work-that-matters.html It seems to … Continue reading Words to live by … and to ponder<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[668,1004,1436],"class_list":["post-9486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","tag-blog","tag-civic-involvement","tag-downtown-amarillo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9486\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}