don’t count on it, but maybe

Less than a week after I got fired for posting a link to PUT YOUR CLOTHES ON, YOU’RE IN MIDDLETON NOW on the credit union intranet, Claudia Moberly, the curator of the Middleton Historical Society, reached out to see if I’d be willing to talk to the Society in February. Why? It’s not a for sure thing, but if it works out, I’m going to recount how Middleton was once an island, surrounded on most sides by floodwaters the city fathers hadn’t planned on. They eventually moved the town away from the floodwaters and straight into the flight path of the migrating Californians. That’s why, despite Mayor Jackie’s best intentions, there are nearly 10,000 inhabitants of this once-peaceful oasis. That’s also why Moses and the Israelites kept going after the mill burned down. I wonder if they ever made it to New Plymouth?

The title of this thing is WE MOVED IT ONCE. WE CAN MOVE IT AGAIN. Because if the Californians keep on coming, we’ll have to.