Chapter 2 - enVISION a new city and the Wellspring

 

Chapter 2 - enVISION a new city and the Wellspring

By Toni Walker * tonispywriter@gmail.com

Hello again. Welcome back to this fun adventure of creative intention setting. So in the Real World, ToeKnee works for the NewsPapery in her town called the AI Cent Trail city aka Centralia in that berg called Illinois. So her NewsPapery does this thing called Visions every February and each time they come up with a theme. This year the theme was that there was no theme. So ToeKnee came up with what she thought was an interesting concept. The idea was that she wanted her town to thrive and be the best city alive. So her theme became clear and the intention bug got stuck in her ear.

She is sure her brother-in-law,The Great Scott Bund-E with his energetic bug army had something to do with that thought on Mun-dee (okay, it might not have been on Monday but give the new BG a break here. This whole concept of the Land of Plenty got started on that great turkey day, the day where the thankful blessings come to play.) And it came about because ToeKnee was enVISIONing a new city where she could thrive and just be thankful for all her wonderful blessings.

Here is that email she sent to the publisher of the NewsPapery. She hasn’t heard back so she really must see if this idea catches on and becomes reality.

Theme: enVISION a New Centralia

 

What would you bring to Centralia/the community/the 6 county area to make it more appealing and make it the mecca you always wanted it to be? Would you build things? Would you create a cool visitor's center that draws in the crowds? What would you enVISION for your town?

 

Here are a few ideas that I personally enVISION:

 

• The indention in the land across from the hospital in Foundation Park, make it an ice rink in the winter... in the summer put a cool ice rink facility that houses enough space to draw in people who compete professionally to want to come to town. In the summer make it like the Muny, an outdoor theater space with an indoor stage. Draw in the St Louis crowds. The idea for the name of the outdoor theater came to me, it was called Shake-UR-Spear on Cleo’s Turf. I thought that was cool since this area is called Little Egypt and the NewsPapery is designed with a totally Egyptian theme.

 

• Create a walking path around Centralia Downtown. Put stars on the concrete outside of businesses of famous Centalians. They do this in the Loop in St. Louis. I used to work at the RFT so I used to see them all the time.

 

• I keep seeing this cool castle-like building that would be a visitor's center in Foundation Park. Put some of the iconic history of trains in there along with the history of exactly why the Sentinel has an Egyptian theme. Did you know Casey Jones was a real person? My great grandfather was the fireman with him. (a fireman shoveled the coal into the fire to keep the steam engine running)

 

It's just an idea. I thought it was an interesting concept. You could do a whole enJOY section where you focus on famous Centralians with cool histories. OR just Centralians with a great legacy in the community.

 

Tagline: Where your history meets Centralia history.

So that was my enVISION idea, so we really must see if we can make this intention thing work everyday personally. So I came up with another idea we could use every day, it is a thing that just uses pennies or plain old note paper, hey, hey. It’s called The Wellspring. It uses pennies and shooting stars and note paper stars and a lot of Centralia history which points back to the owners of the NewsPapery who owns the Park where lives the Creek where the Lucky Stones live in the Joyful Fields of the lady who jumps for Joy occasionally. Here is that idea just so you can see, the idea that ToeKnee thought clever indeed.

So, you know how we are named Centralia.

Well, break it up and we are AI-CENT-TRAIL

Then I wonder... What is a Cent Trail in Centralia? Ah, ha! LUCKY STONES!

 

So my idea is that we have this wellspring, okay a well, you know like the Jack and Jill type. Except this type of well holds intentions, or wonderings or ideas people might just think of and then forget. If they forget Jill and Jot (aka Jack) will note them down and put them in the well in their stead like secret little courier knights from Jot-A-Lot Land. (Okay, Camelot, shh!)

 

You gather these intentions and write each one on a notepaper, then fold it into a star... (our well is a big TBR intention jar. These are those enVISION ideas To Be Realized) 

 

Wish upon a star! Moon mission! Northman's in full effect. The kids will shout! (Northman is God, you know. Shh, the secret is about to get out!) When you wish upon a star, those go into the well too, Just-In-Case, his name is JT, He's on the Case to help Jill and Jot too! "Here is another intention just in case you need it, God", JT will say. "Saved that one, God, here you go put that well too," so Into the well it all flows.

 

Then you put those star notes into the well and then they turn into pennies. You know, those pennies you throw into a well and make wishes on, we use those too. Those intentions gather up into little stacks. Like minded intentions all in a row. Then God breathes on them, they harden, and there they go! Off to Lucky Stone Creek, now they are little stones. Little kids will find them and off they go to their homes or their little boxes or wherever kids keep things. They will love on those stones and let the intentions out and there you go, your enVISION idea just got out into the universe, it's in God's hands and all part of the show.

 

Leaving Cent Trails all over. Milk and Honey or Bust, the kids will yell!

We are blooming out all over town at God's behest.

 

There you go, there is the idea. The words are really wonky but I can’t always mark time without my friend MarkATT. Am I the only person who hears the music from Mary Poppins: Step In Time here? If not, there is nothing to fear. I get musical messages constantly. That is part of the little things God sends to me, to point me to my path in the Land of Plenty.