Woodard Words

Read below for a Letter to the Editor from the daily paper. When it comes to the Trinity River "Vision", no one sees it clearer.

Poetic Justice

The Editorial Board has many talented writers. I do not know who wrote Monday’s "Hope for Heritage Plaza," but it is an exquisite, serene and beautiful piece of writing. It would make Realtors describing houses for sale in the Star-Telegram envious. It should be entered for a Pulitzer Prize. It would win!

"In its prime, Heritage Plaza was the center stone sitting atop the lush green jewel box that is the 112-acre Heritage Park along the south side of Fort Worth’s Trinity River bluffs.

"This urban oasis, which marks the location of the original military outpost that gave the city its name, provided an expansive view northward toward the convergence of the Clear and West forks of the Trinity River. The terraced walkways, soothing waterfalls and canopied live oaks brought calm to visitors who sought them out."

In fact, it sounds like something that might have flown from my pen in one of my letters to the editor. But, of course, as Editorial Director J.R. Labbe well knows, I never would have substituted "convergence" for "confluence." And I would have added the postscript that you better look at it now because once it is covered by the Town Lake, it, like Ripley Arnold who marveled at its beauty, belongs to history.

— Don Woodard Sr., Fort Worth