• Traveled to Liberty and participated in the City Hall reception for J.A., the new economic development professional for Casey County. Just about everybody who’s anybody in local leadership circles was there and I met Representative Higdon, Mayor Sweeney, the new director of the Chamber and several others, including the guest of honor. One of my most interesting conversations was with Richard M, who has a history with our family that goes back to the early years of the Clan.
I have to say that I felt a welcoming atmosphere that was new and different, as though a page had turned in my connection to a community that has been a puzzler for over twenty-five years, or perhaps the timing is just right to extend every benefit of the doubt to a place that continues to pull at me—after many, many moons.