Ok, I AM moving on. For Cindy Blog’s the Sierra I’ve seen the future, and it is virtual. It’s on the web. It’s no where, and everywhere.
I think I’m going to keep blogging, and I’m going to go back to go forward.
I have resurrected an old project of mine – my Forest Service Memoir.
In 2005, when I started this project, three things inspired me to give it a try and see what I could do; the Forest Service Centennial, the book “The Free Life of a Ranger, a Forest Service Memoir” by Archie Munchie and the hit movie: “The Notebook”. Simple people can have interesting stories. I’ve been blogging for the last three years to practice my writing skills, to inspire my friends and coworkers to take action, and to entertain. I’m going to take my blogs to my past and into my virtual Forest Service world of today.
It starts something like this:
I’m not the folksy Ranger of “Green Underpants.” Jack Ward Thomas in his book “Journals of a Forest Service Chief” didn’t write a chapter on “Drugs Sex and Rock and Roll.” When Archie Munchie wrote his “Free Life of a Ranger: a Forest Service Memoir” there was no such thing as telecommuting, virtual positions, Wikipedia or blogs. I’m not your grandparent’s ‘Forestry Ranger.’ My family didn’t grow up in a little house on the prairie, or in a log cabin in the woods. My parents weren’t raised on a farm or in the country or even in rural America, and neither was I. I was born to military parents at a time that would become known as “The Baby Boom.” I am a Baby Boomer Ranger and there has never been a more dynamic generation of land stewards working in a such a dramatically changing environment; “Caring for the Land and Serving People.”
Starting on October 1, 2008, on my 50th birthday, I will revise “Cindy Blogs the Sierra” and I will start my new blog:
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Baby Boomer Ranger – Life, Love, and Natural Resource Management in a Virtual Forest Service.
I will be posting some things to try them out. I have an outline for my Memoir and a few items include:
THE CALIFORNIA OUTBACK
LESSONS LEARNED THE HARD WAY
TALKING CARE OF THE BABY TREES
AMONG THE GIANTS
THE BIG FIRES: YELLOWSTONE
PLANNER FOR A SPECIAL MANAGEMENT AREA
INHERITING THE WILDERNESS FROM A GOOD OL’ BOY
DEATH BY DOWNSIZING
THE BIG CREEK FIRE
THE SPECIAL TEAM
THE POWER OF HYDROELCTRIC PROJECTS
AN ENTERPRISING IDEA
THE CENTENNIAL ESSAYS
THE COMPUTERS THAT LEVELED THE FOREST
THE LINE OFFICERS – DRAWING THE LINE – OR KNOT
THE GUARD STATIONS, LIVING IN THE PAST
DRUGS, SEX, AND ROCK AND ROLL!
THE MILITIA ON CALL
CHANGING ROLES
GRADUATING FROM THE FOREST SERVICE
Will my memoir be published? There isn’t much of a market for books about government employees.
So, I doubt it.
But, that’s the beauty of blogging. I can write it, and you can read it – it’s on the web!
Living virtual is beautiful.