Greenwood Utilities continues to provide excellent support for the Baptist Town project even in the muddy conditions shown here. The stakes show construction boundaries and light locations for a pocket park, designed by landscape designer Brantley Snipes, to be constructed in May with students from the Carl Small Town Center and Harvard’s Kennedy School.

As we squished through the mud today, I thought of how individuals and organizations can choose to be flexible, helpful contributors to a project, or introduce difficulties and limit progress. I have encountered both here in Greenwood, but in either case they provide lessons in how to support rather than hinder projects.