#My3Words 2024: Collect, Synthesize, Share

I've never done #My3Words like Chris Brogan always does. Until now! (dramatic music cue)

I kinda accidentally picked Collect, Synthesize, Share. These three came up in a conversation to describe how I process ideas from conversations and events, and it's flexible enough to cover other interpretations. 

Collect
Gather ideas through conversations, events and reading widely. 

Gather in person.

Follow the concepts in the Collect. (the good ones, anyway)  

Synthesize
Put ideas together in new ways.
Create. 

Share
Publish more content.
Share what I have with others, be generous. 

My well rounded life list is still my guide for more than a year. It's not been as strongly motivating lately, so perhaps this will help revitalize how I feel about it. 

More post rock architecture from Kansas: Boyd, Barton County

From my continuing fascination with post rocks in Kansas. 

West of Hoisington, Kansas, there is a pair of old post rock buildings worth seeing. I didn't shoot any photos, so I've pulled these three images in this story from Google Street View, circa Nov 2021. 

The station faces east, and you can see an outline where the old shipping scales were in front of the buildings. Also the old fence and hitching post are wonderful relics. 

It's the former Boyd, Kansas, townsite. Great photos and a 2016 write up at the Farmer Days blog: Exploring Barton County, KS. The old gas pumps are now gone. Be sure to click on the Post Rock category for additional post rock building photos.

 

The railroad still runs on the south side of the old station. Grain silos or elevators are still in use in 2023. 

The Legends of Kansas site, "Barton County, Kansas Extinct Towns" offered this description:

This village in Eureka township was first called Maherville when it began as a station on the Missouri Pacific Railroad. The town received a post office in June 1874. For whatever reason, the town’s name was changed to Boyd in January 1904. The post office also took on the new name. In 1910 it was a trading and shipping point for the neighborhood with a population of 40. The post office closed its doors forever in October 1937.

 

Love the combination of limestone post rock and some smaller stone to fill out the structure. 

Jackie Langholz has a small set of photos of Boyd Station from 2006 on Flickr. And Steven Thomas caught a pic of a small outbuilding with the same combination of rocks at the site.