October is the perfect month for future plans
Lou Marzeles
News Editor
Maybe it's just the mellowness of the month: October is as close to a holiday season without actually having major holidays as you can get. It's the preamble to the warmest time of year, even as it gets colder weatherwise by the day. It gives rise to strangely pleasing contemplations such as, is it colder in the winter or in the mountains?
So maybe it's just it being another blissful October that makes one feel like maybe-just maybe-all the talk about changing the area's future for the better will actually turn into quantifiable, measurable, demonstrable results. That was certainly the feeling that came out of Wednesday night's planning meeting down at the Grange Hall. I suspect it's more than just the time of year.
Some 65 people rose one at a time and spoke at length, and with considerable eloquence, about their love of Goldendale. I don't think it possible to spend that much time sharing with a convivial crowd of friends of neighbors your affection for a community without it becoming profoundly affecting on a cumulative level. Even I had something to offer, going all the way back in the community as I do to late April (as opposed to many who have been here 10, 30, 50 years and more). I shared that what I particularly appreciated about this area is the astonishing fact that when people here speak honestly, remarkably enough, for the most part they actually are being honest. That may seem self-evident, but I must remind you that I was an editor in Washington, D. C., where if you can learn to fake sincerity, you can go far.
So it's a mellow October in a town where honesty is actually honest and people can speak among their peers with real sincerity (not that fake kind) about their love of the area they share. This is, after all, a Golden Dale. Anything can happen here.
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