Did you catch Kevin and Yang in Rapid Growth?
Good news doesn’t flow as quickly as bad news these days, current events being what they are. But necessity begets invention, as they say, and we are nowhere if not smack in the middle of inventive gestation in West Michigan. You’d have to be entirely under a rock not to see, hear, and smell it going on all around us. Incubators and professional groups, think tanks, and incentives, we’re pulling together as a community to take care of each other and our future.
Pollyanna? Nope. Just a long view of civilization from an old Classics major.
Community interest, involvement and energy are rising in inverse proportion to economic decline. Because, they always do.
And while we all wish it hadn’t taken a crisis to gather us to action, here we are, doing what human beings do best: taking care of each other, sacrificing time and energy to build a better future.
I love civilization. Don’t you?
The Rapid Growth piece is lovely, wonderful images by local photographer Brian Kelly. Why focus on the design community rather than directly on new business? Because designers are civilization’s new storytellers. They are the new-age bards and poets and singers, who define communities by crafting and telling stories about the community, and about business, about candidates, about products and services..
Every king had his poet. Every community needs their storytellers. Always, and throughout time. By working together to discover West Michigan’s story, we believe, West Michigan will find its voice. By working together to craft and tell West Michigan’s story, we’ll all be working against the same set of goals, playing from the same playbook, creating the same future, one we all agree that we want.
Not a bad little effort, is it?
Telling the story about our future? That’s the way human beings roll. The way way we always have rolled. We may be speaking in new ways, singing new songs. But the human instinct for survival, providing for our future, hasn’t changed much at all.
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