Letters To The Editor: March 1999

Dear Editor:
Why take the time out of your busy schedule to collaborate with other individuals who also claim to be very busy? Some do it to create an effect as they enact their deeds or to be heard as they herald their messages. Some others do it to achieve what they alone cannot accomplish.

When groups of people are inspired or driven to achieve a common goal, they have the potential to accomplish great things. Any accomplishment is the result of focus and energy. The size or the duration of the accomplishment relates to clarity and to the commitment to maintain the momentum. When the focus deviates or we lose sight of the common goal, the energy gets displaced and the momentum weakens.

We have recently realized that while an association, be it ours or any other, is created by a group of people and maintained for a time, it does not grow up and function on its own; it cannot survive if we abandon it.

Nancy Hudson
Education Committee Member
Michigan Arborist Association