Echoes
I attended earlier this week a staff event that took me out of the office, across town and right down memory lane. A nonprofit we support invited our team to come and get a tour of their operation. This organization tells me it promotes creativity, environmental awareness, and community through reuse. To support this mission it has purchased the shopping strip of my early youth to develop there instead an arts, thrift, and sustainability hub. When I looked at that strip in the morning’s bright sunshine, I could see that each element to this proposed project promises to bring to the surrounding community a desperately-needed renewal. I could certainly see the potential of their vision. But I have to say that I also saw still the hub of my late 60’s childhood. I felt so nostalgic. Where the thrift store resides, I saw still the Woolworth. That Woolworth was not only the purveyor of superior grilled cheese sandwiches, but an important resource for sundries. Woolworth w