Lower Taney Inaugeration

[Project Healing Waters]

The early Jews belly-ached and yearned for the "good ole days" in captivity in Egypt. The Romans named the Greek civilization the "classical period." The Renaissance was sparked by a desire to "return to the essentials of yesteryear." Adults in the late 1800s referred to the first half of the 1800s as "the good ole days." By 1900, the "good ole days" were the Reconstruction Era following the Civil War...unless you were from the South (then the "good ole days" were still pre-Civil War). The Amish and Mennonites got stuck in the "good ole days." It's an understatement to say they have SEVERE recruitment difficulties. My parents viewed the "good ole days" as the post-war era of the late 1940s and 1950s...when (for instance) minorities had to sit in the back of the bus and give up their seats to whites, drink from separate water fountains, and live largely segregated from white society and cancer or a heart attack was an automatic death sentence. Youth today are really into "retro" culture...meaning the 1970s and 1980s. They view these as the "good ole days," but try to get them to give up their cell phones and Xboxes, and you've got a fight on your hands!

Resevoirs ARE settling tanks. If they discharge via a top-water spillway, that's not such a bad thing for the downstream fishery. But our hydro-electric dams that predominantly discharge via sucking massive quantities of water from the increasingly polluted BOTTOM of the lakes are a real concern that only grows with time. But I will remind everyone that most of the Ozarks had NO ELECTRICITY before these dams were built. While I think we need to figure out how to minimize these toxic effects of the dam designs, that too will be PROGRESS...not a return to "the good ole days" when such technological innovations didn't exist.

I, for one, don't like the status quo. I don't like "routine" in fishing (or much of anything else). I enjoy the added challenge of always having to adapt to changing conditions. This is the "magic" of life if you ask me.

[Trav]

Great post PHW!

I like a challenge myself but only when I desire it. Im a very systematic, methodical thinker who enjoys the radical but on my own terms. Changes that surprise me are the worst. The inevitable erosion/deteriation or the projected/expected change I can stomach.

Like I know this winter it will get colder. I know that urban sprawl will take over. I know that prices will inflate. I know that science will advance. And of course I know lakes will age.

Some stuff we dont like but its change we accept. Its the things that blindsides you that irritates me. Adaption has never been an issue with me. Although living life to expect the unexpected always has been.

Living on Taney, your kind of always playing a waiting game. When will they run generators? When will they stop? Over the years you would think I would be used to it. But in my minds eye, I would sure appreciate it if they would just make a schedule, publish it, and stick to the schedule.

Of course, I have many disfunctions and being a diagnosed anal retentive is one of them. I just feel that everything has a time and place and am easily skewed if things are irratic or out of place.

Haha

I remember when that TV show "Monk" first came out. At family get togethers my relatives used to joke that I was one of the writers for the show. They jest but I can confirm that it is a very frustrating condition sometimes. I swallow alot of impulses everyday or I will literally never sleep.

[bigredbirdfan]

As a thirty something I am going to cautiously listen to the Green stuff as I am afraid of those who are now going to mandate to me the what they voluntarily chose not to do. I hope they were ignorant and are not plain hypocritical. But I fear the later.