Taking up space

Well, I threw eight draft blogs into the garbage bin this morning.  If you have read this blog a time or two in the past, you will understand why most  pieces that end up in that bin get tossed.

Reflection, perspective, and perception. Similar concepts that should never be forgotten when dealing with any topic, any issue, or any thought.

While I have noted often the concept of perception, the other two concepts mentioned fall firmly into the "your own" category and "not that of others".  Why? In the scheme of things, those two are what should be used to help deal with the third. Just a thought.

Anyway ...

July 1st starts a new year for the Town. As with all municipalities in our Commonwealth, our fair haven runs on such a fiscal year.   

Brightest spot on the horizon next year is the end result of the process for forming that budget. Biggest problem to be faced is if the process works, can we resist squandering the results. 

Despite the opinions of some, the goal for the end result has been the same for most involved in the process. A sustainable level of operations.  Granted the methodology in getting there has been the subject of great and at times heated debate. That has however involved disagreements over when and how, not necessarily what has to be done.

Truthfully, isn't that the underlying problem of getting to a solution on many things? Not all, but many?

One of the solution problems (or is it two?), the two former school buildings.  That one, or two, continues to involve the how, when and what stuff.  The resolution of the issues surrounding those two buildings has been, is and will continue to be both a political and a social minefield.

Might be easier to deal with if there were some universal concern about both buildings and both neighborhoods. Reality however at times subtle and at times glaringly obvious has shown such concern about both buildings is less than universal.

And the real question should be whether it in fact should be, don't you think?  Two separate buildings, in two separate locations. Sure the buildings share certain common factors, but maybe we have been wrong in attempting to for a solution for both buildings through the same process.  

Just a thought.

Reflection is a big part of things for me right now.  I suppose a natural process once something ends, or once you begin to contemplate changes to come.  How did you get yourself to this point? Did you make the right decisions? What could you have done differently? What should you have done differently?  

Reflection is often the hardest of all concepts to deal with, because it requires an honest assessment to be of any benefit. Regrets, well I have more than a few, a few too many to mention them all. Along the way, you try to chart a course, one with careful steps.  You try to do things your way, and that can be fine, but forgetting that there are times it should be "our way" instead of "my way" has led to a time or two when one has bit off a bit more than they can or should be able to chew.  In the end you have to suffer the blows that come down the byway occasionally.

My apologies to Mr. Sinatra for that by the way.

And all apologies aside, we have to remember you cannot change the past. Learn from it, deal from the consequences, and try to use the experiences in charting the always unknown future.

Anyway, just a reflective thought ...

Be safe.