It's Saturday

It's Saturday and as I walk around my small town's downtown it occurs to me...my "small town USA" is not such a small town. It makes me laugh after living in towns that were just a map dot that you come to my humble medium sized "small town" and you have some people that act like Henry Ford just delivered his first horseless carriage and others act like the new Long Horns restaurant was about 15 years overdue for our ever expanding mini-metropolis. As a native son of the state, but an outsider looking in on my new medium sized "small town" I just smile in amusement. I think things are at a cross roads for my town. The paper read about 2,500 new development coming soon so do we still qualify as a small town? People still walk down town, go to the parks, have a sense of community allegiance and commitment to personal betterment does that make us a small town? I don't know what that word means after all my years on this earth, but I will say this - When I used to live in map dots and mighty metropolises I know that as long as the people think of their town as a small town it will always feel warm, cozy, and home.