Connectivity

Yesterday was packed with connections. A critical issues forum hosted by Hunter, McClean kicked off the day with Memorial Health University Medical Center CEO's Phil Scheangold discussing the House and Senate versions of health care reform. He did an outstanding job! His basic point was that while Congress is moving to ensure coverage for most, not all, they are not increasing community access points or developing in capacity to actually provide care to all of those who will be covered. I said for a long time that reform will not be achieved from the top down, but from the bottom up based on the best practices that already exist throughout the nation.

Then I was off the Savannah Economic Development Authority for a meeting concerning Georgia's water crisis, especially in metro-Atlanta. Why would I be attending this Chamber sponsored event? Most of the jobs in this region are created because of the Georgia Ports in Savannah. Depending on the state's solution to water, jobs may be created or lost. Homeless people end their homelessness by buying their way out. Jobs are the key way in which they accomplish this.

I also had a conversation with my friend Brynn Grant, Director of the Creative Coast Alliance, about social medium and how it is not the future, but the present, of well, just about everything having to do with communication and relationship management.

Then lunch with a group of friends to mostly talk about this week's University of Georgia football game.

Then to the Dutchtown Development where I met with the principals as we finally come close to finishing this 48 unit apartment complex for people living with disabilities.

Then a meeting with Skip Eloge, our CFO, and Jeff Darley, out I T staff support as we discussed the infrastructure that Union Mission will need five years from now when we have a patient load of 20,000+/annually.

Then it was home for e-mails, phone calls, and connectivity. What a day!

Then Julie and I took Goddess for a walk. The wind was blowing across the marsh, and the misty rain tasted like salt from the sea. Massive purple clouds filled the sky, hanging low over the lighthouse. We walked out on our friend's Shirley's dock, admiring the beauty of creation. This was a different kind of connectivity. A more basic kind. The kind that gets you through whatever it is you are needing to get through.