PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE - SPRING 2008

It has been an honor to serve the Adams Hill Homeowners Association these past few years. The list of things we have accomplished as a community is long, exceeded only by the list of things still to do. The peril of a long list is that it can get in the way of simply interacting as neighbors. Pushing through changes to the hillside ordinance, working to keep banquet halls out of Adams Square and trying to find parking solutions are all critically important. Sometimes it isn't enough to round out a well defined community. All work and no play....

Spring is coming fast and we have a new park in which to play. At Hattie's suggestion - brilliant, I might add-we are foregoing the typical spring member meeting in favor of a more social event. A picnic of sorts where we can get together and meet new neighbors and find new dinner party guests. Or bowling team members. Or a new bass player for the garage band and you've been trying to put together since high school.

Neighbors are more than the issues they tackle and the problems they solve. When we were kids, we found new friends by walking down the street until we came across a pickup game of football or saw toys in the yard. We don't find friends that way anymore, it seems, and I am as guilty as anyone. This spring fling is an opportunity to make it easy.

We will always work to tackle the important issues that threaten safety or our quality of life here on the hill, but we need to take a step back and embrace the importance of getting to know our neighbors.

Michael Teahan
michael@espressosource.com
President
Adams Hill Homeowners' Association