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Published July 13, 2008 09:55 pm - NEIL FRIEDER column for July 13, 2008

Change: It is constant


Star Beacon

Come writers and critics

Who prophesize with your pen

And keep your eyes wide

The chance won't come again

And don't speak too soon

For the wheel's still in spin

And there's no tellin' who

That it's namin'.

For the loser now

Will be later to win

For the times they are a-changin'.

Does it fit. May be.

Those words are from the great Bob Dylan song, “The Times They Are A-changin’” (1964) drifted at first like a soft mist. Then they became dark and ominous smoke, and finally they were a fire consuming a building in the Harbor.

OK, a little dramatic. It was all in my mind, but you get the drift. The times are a changin’. That is the constant: Change is always with us and that song has a way of taking up my mind when change comes to mind (hmmm a little redundant).

The Dylan song has been in my mind ever since I bumped into an Ashtabula County educator a couple weeks ago. It was Ashtabula Area City School Superintendent Joseph Donatone. He asked me what is becoming a very frequently asked question: “How are things at the newspaper?”



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