When It All Gets Boiled Down...
Eric Richardson
[Flickr]
Looking out over the rooftops of the Historic Core in this September photo from City Hall.
While putting together some materials for verbdowntown today I ran across this quote from a post that ran on January 1, 2005:
I’m just a kid living in a big city who likes old buildings and likes to explore. I want to reflect that in what I write.
Nearly four years later, I think that's still true. I may be a few years older, but it's still about that sense of exploration.
In that same post, I dropped this as a little aside:
I think downtown's ripe for a community site where people can do in a more structured logical format a lot of the Q&A type stuff that happens on newdowntown
I still think that, and we made an attempt to do something of that nature a while back with weekly Ask Downtown questions, a feature which died out prematurely when the questions were slow to arrive.
Marc on October 28, 2008, at 09:56AM – #1
You're still that kid Eric! ... that's why we love to read your posts .... Some people look at what is happening downtown and ask "why?" .. you still see what hasn't happened in the "DT" and ask "why not?"
Urban Bruin on October 28, 2008, at 10:54AM – #2
BDT: Keep up the great work!
There was a palace that was a city. It was a palace! It was a palace and it can be a palace again! A palace in which there is no king or queen or dukes or earls or princes, but subjects all -- subjects beholden to each other, to make a better place to live. Is that too much to ask? Are we asking too much for this? Is it beyond our reach?! Because if it is, then we are nothing but sheep being herded to the final slaughterhouse! I will not go down that way!! I choose to fight back!!! I choose to rise, not fall! I choose to live, not die!! And I know, I know that what's within me is also within you!
That's why I ask you now to join me. Join me, rise up with me; rise up on the wings of this slain angel. We'll rebuild on the soul of this little warrior. We will pick up his standard and raise it high! Carry it forward until this city -- your city -- our city -- his city -- is a palace of God! Is a palace of God!
I am with you, little James.
I am you.
benjamin on October 28, 2008, at 10:52PM – #3
eric,
dont make me feel old now... how old are you?