Words for Thought

This statement was printed in a booklet in another place preparing for change, Gerhart, OR.

Dave Coles has substituted Stafford Hamlet in the appropriate place.

"Nothing lasts forever;
forces of change will someday make
Stafford Hamlet unrecognizable.
Those forces are not in earth or water,
or in chain saws or concrete, but in human attitudes.
Stafford Hamlet will cease to be Stafford Hamlet
when its people no longer recognize themselves as a community,
when open and generous attitudes toward each
other give way to individual selfish interests.
When everyone takes what he or she can
from the environment and the community
without seeing that the whole has been diminished thereby.
In those days the only thing left will be the memories..."
(borrowed from Gerhart, OR)


It's true. Thanks Dave & Tia.