The top corner is the destination

A photograph taken recently

I am giving myself until the end of the half of this football match to type in this box. It's a Saturday morning and I don't have anything I absolutely have to do so I'm taking the time to go through my email to see what I sent to people. I'm up to November 8, and the picture I've attached here has nothing to do with any of what's being written in this box.

November 8 was three days after the election, and friends are asking me about one of the details in a story I'd written about federal classifications for roadways. This is one sign of how we live in a country with multiple levels of government. 

I've made it my career to try to explain to people how it all fits together. I've been able to do this over the years because there are those who want to make sure there are stories being written about the public realm. That's what I do. 

I put a picture above because I took this photograph on February 20 when I was heading out somewhere. I noticed the crew doing work on 9th Street and I took the picture to try to remind myself to look up the property to see what's happening there. All of that information is waiting for someone to retrieve it. 

I have yet to look up and see what might be happening. 

The next day I took the same drive. I don't like to walk around here anymore for reasons that are not the subject of this post. I'm almost out of time. I told my phone to send me a reminder to "Look Up SoHo" because at one point this was a project called that. 

A photo taken in the past - details here

At this moment I'm more interested in looking up that property and updating the cvillepedia post more than figuring out what utilities were being installed. I wrote about this recently for C-Ville Weekly but it was an unremarkable story. 

I'm less interested in looking back at November 8 and all of the other days, but this is a valuable experience as I sort through my life and try to see how my recent past can influence my present, and inform choices I might make in the future. 

I've already created a couple of documents, including a new journal to capture what I was writing in the hours after the election of the president who is now doing exactly what I predicted in my writing. 

Those thoughts are private because in public my role is to try to explain how things work and I can't let many close to me to hear what I have to say, because then I perform and I lose sight of who I am. When I play a role to someone else, I  find myself living as the projections of others. 

What I want my role to be is a person who continues to get to be a Town Crier and maybe someone who can spend more time trying to understand the basic sociological value I have. Is that even the right word? I do know that I tend to study myself more than most people do, but I would also argue I wish everyone has the foresight to write out as much of their life as possible. 

But then again, it's a bit isolating, especially when there's more time than you expected. 

"They needed help to get out of that corner," said the announcer. "They were going down a bit of a cul-de-sac."

There's less than a minute left now. I'll get up and move around for a bit before sitting back down to continue the rest of my day, a day in which I am very grateful I get to continue to keep on unfolding.