Good Friday Morning, all!
For starters, thank you to all of you that responded to my short note the other day. It has been a very long road to get that dissertation done, and I’m proud of the work and the results. I managed to do a dissertation focused on issues in West Virginia, and I will always be grateful for the time and support of my committee to go and do that.
I think any project that people work on, you want that work to “mean something”. Sometimes that payoff is fast. I love mowing my grass, because the payoff is immediate - I love the smell, the job is done, and I get to feel good about it. For my research, it’s a bit trickier, because making change at the level of the state, for people that live here is slow - even in the best case.
Will my work lead to the change I want? Well, photography is a game of freezing time. I’m sharing this photo that was made over a few minutes in one day. The wall in the background is probably 100 years old. The creek, though it is always moving and changing, is as old as the mountains.
As is the case in all of these, time will tell. (which means I have to be patient in my work as well)
Much love to all of you, and glad to be talking with you all again.
S