OH:

My copy of Greg's retirement announcement was in the overflowing mailbox I purged yesterday. I keep looking at it to be sure it's really going to happen!

Life in Tioga County moves much more slowly than here, near Dayton. I've chafed at the pace here because my long experience has been that change happens in TC at the rate human beings actually can change. So I prefer that pace.

But it occurred to me yesterday that the intensity of the 3 weeks it took to do all I did during my three weeks back "In the County" was just about at that faster Dayton pace. And that as I integrate back into Dayton-pace, perhaps I'll find it less.... maddening. Perhaps more patient with it. Perhaps more effective, in it. It is two very different cultures for sure. I can love both.

~S~