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The Creative Coast’s blogspot is Savannah’s sounding board for local thinkers, innovators, wanderers and wonderers. Guest bloggers share their thoughts, opinions and creative noodling from all over the map. This week’s blog is from Jim Reed, the Wicked Messenger of our time, and the man with the scoop on Savannah’s arts & entertainment scene, particularly all things celluloid.  Read on for Jim’s view on chaos, change and the need for more of both ….

A few days ago in St. Augustine, Florida, venerable and esteemed rock music icon Bob Dylan wrapped the latest chapter of what has become known unofficially among his devoted enthusiasts as “The Neverending Tour.”

Launched in 1988, it found the aging poet and acoustic folksinger turned brash electric guitar put-down artist extraordinaire at what he believed was the nadir of his enviable career. In a fit of what can only be termed artistic desperation, Dylan, who just 14 years prior had led the most profitable, sold-out tour in the history of rock music (a cross-country trek backed by his stalwart henchmen The Band), ignored the fervent pleading of his respected manager and threw together a fiesty, somewhat sloppy “garage trio” made up of moonlighting members of the Saturday Night Live house band.

 

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 The Creative Coast’s blogspot is Savannah’s sounding board for local thinkers, innovators, wanderers and wonderers. Guest bloggers share their thoughts, opinions and creative noodling from all over the map. This week’s blog is from Dr.  Erika Tate, deep thinker, community strategist, Hop Scotch Champion and all around Positive Being.  Read on for some transformative thinking about making a difference….

I admit that I haven’t tuned into Transformers since I was a young girl. After a quick google search, I was reminded that they were an alien race that posed as transportation among us humans. While it might be considered a moving storyline, I discarded my intentions to attempt any sort of cyber-robotic analogy. However, I kept the tagline. Why?

I want to be a community transformer!

Like most folks, I want to “make a difference,” whether it’s through volunteerism, career choices in service fields such as education and public health, or more recently social entrepreneurship. As I work alongside other community folk who also seek to “make a difference,” I wonder, what can we do so that this “difference” transforms communities?