The Jacksonville Landing

For the past 20 years I've lived in the Jacksonville area. The jags were a young team, the city had  potential and the Landing was something new and exciting.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacksonville_Landing

Now, many years later the Landing is a run down section of Jacksonville right on the St. John's river and is most famous for shootings in the past coule years. 

Jacksonville's answer is to close the Landing.

I think this is like Jacksonville. I've lived here long enough, cross county lines four times a day to get to my home not even in Jacksonville but walking distance from it. The city much like their team the Jags have no vision, no dream. It is but a pit stop on people's vacations to Orlando and the great Disney mess and St. Augustine. Or maybe their going further to Miami or the Keys.

The city lacks creativity in spades. My idea is to take the natural beauty and uniqueness of one of the very few rivers that run backwards and make it something people want to see, want to visit, maybe even plan their vacation around it.

How does that happen? Cruises. Yup. Simple right. Day and dinner cruises that go up and down the St. John's. The only foreseeable problem is they would have to be eco-friendly and not disturb the environmental balance of the ecosystem but that can be done. 

If I had the millions of dollars to invest I'd do it. Not only would there be cruises but the place would have its own resteraunts ran and owned by locals. Seriously, when people go on vacay they want something unique to the area. The theme wouldn't stop there I'd also bring in locals artists and businesses to the shops. Who wants a souvenier made in China when your visiting somewhere besides China -- no one. 

To top it off I'd put in a parking garage for people visiting the shops and taking the cruises. Parking in J'ville is a nightmare so having it is a commodity and a must.

I can't be the only peron with vision, maybe just the only one who lives in the area.

http://news.wjct.org/post/2017-state-st-johns-river-report-another-mixed-review-rivers-health

I plea with the Jacksonville City Council and Duval County (one in the same) to consider doing something with this beautiful parcel of land that will bring people to the city for more than a stop at Chick-fil-a.

The Way of All Flesh by Corey Furman

What an interesting, intriguing read. I was most amazed by the authors ability to make me truly hate a couple of the characters. At times I really wanted to tell them off! I also felt deep sympathy for other characters. 



My Review:

The Way of all Flesh by Corey Furman is a sci-fi futuristic read. humans are no longer locked to living on Earth and have ventured out to other planets and space stations. Joss Breylin a college man on Earth meets the love of his life Riss, short for Larissa. Little do they know at the time but their road ahead will be cluttered with potholes. Immediately after college he is sent to serve in the colonial Marines and is sent to Zarmina - a world with one side locked to it's sun. The sun never rises or sinks and half the planet facing away from the sun is cold an unliveable. Constant storms and rain grace the surface of this planet. However Zarmina becomes his home and Riss joins him there.In this futuristic world humans have created simulants. They look human and are born with a twin and come in varying models. Joss and Riss take in their own pair of simulants.The story gets wild from this pint on

This novel engaged me from the start with his colorful writing that painted the future world these characters live in. The characters are all so vivid and I found myself loathing a couple of them and cheering for the underdogs whom always seemed to get the short end of the stick. I despised the way the simulants were treated at times because they weren't "human" although by only by the narrowist margin is the difference between a human and simulant. Each simulant has a twin or chroma and are extremely close and bound to one another in a way that humans don't seem to completely understand.


The Way of All Flesh is a journey of love, tragedy, and humanity that is sure to keep the reader plastered to the book and the pages turning!

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