It rains at the airport and a blog is born
A rainstorm at the Cincinnati airport and the “community” that developed around her cell phone is the first installment in The Sylvia L. Lovely Blog that was launched this week.
To those who know her, the news here is that Lovely has time to blog.
Not only is the Frenchburg native executive director and CEO of the Kentucky League of Cities and president of the NewCities Institute, she chairs Morehead State University’s Board of Regents, serves on the board of the National League of Cities and on and on. She’s also written two books and does commentary on National Public Radio.
“I do a lot of writing,” Lovely says. “It’s what I love to do. … I do this commentary on NPR (National Public Radio) and I just love that stuff. I just love it.”
With the blog, which you can link to at www.newcities.org, Lovely wants to “tell the stories of people who really make a difference every day.”
She believes the “epicenter of democracy right now seems to be at Al’s Bar” where the regular guys and gals hang out. Democracy is “messy,” she says, but it works and makes a difference.
She wants to get more dialogue going and she wants responses to her blog. All ideas are welcome.
People want to connect with with each other, Lovely says. They don’t know how because “we’re disillusioned, we’re angry, we’re bewildered.”
She hopes to bridge that gap and make connections.
“I think it will be a different kind of blog. It will be interesting to see where I go with it.”
Indeed it will.
