Captain’s Log The Places We Go

We’re getting ready to send the paper to print – Volume 7, number 11. Instead of writing this in the quiet pre-dawn hours in my cozy little house, I was focused on writing a Business Narrative for another project I’m working on.

So now I’m in the noisy office on deadline with phones and walk-ins and the YouTube fireplace playing some classical brain music, trying to focus. It’s quite a change from our first print edition and the first Captain’s Log. Days like this, I get a little sentimental. 

And weepy…I just went to the archive drawer and pulled out the first issues of the paper from November 2020, just to look at the old Captain’s Logs, and oh my, how far we’ve come. Our first edition of this paper was so, so, rookie. Remember when we printed it on white paper, and it was more like a newsletter. As much as we didn’t want it to be a newsletter, wow. It was. 

But here we are. And what fun it’s been. 

There’s a paragraph in C.L. #3 that says something about CPI – someone calling our paper a Continuous Process Improvement. Thank goodness it has been, because what we’re doing certainly has come closer and closer to being a real newspaper. 

There is also a paragraph about the things that we have learned, and then I quoted one of my all-time favorite poems – from Dr. Suess…

“Out there things can happen, and frequently do,

To people as brainy and footsy as you.

And when things start to happen, don’t worry, don’t stew,

Just go right along, you’ll start happening too!”

So much of that poem is all that we’ve been through and then some… so while we, “Get on our way!” we’ll always be right here…

…Keeping you Posted.

Rach