Talk of The Villages Florida - Rentals, Entertainment & More
Talk of The Villages Florida - Rentals, Entertainment & More
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"I came here to golf".
I heard this from someone not too far off who was talking with another man while picking up my mail at the Lynnhaven Postal Station. Have no idea if it was about me and my 224 613 Project however it does seem to be getting more notice than it ever has before because of Facebook.
Probably because of all the work I have being doing on it on Facebook. Facebook has allowed me to reach more people than ever before and make some important contacts. Plus I seem to have been getting some very important help from the friends I have been trying to make since 1991 in assisting me with this work. However, I just wanted to say that getting involved with something like my 224 613 Project is very easy. Just Google the library and sheriff's office in your former community or here in Lake, Sumter, and Marion Counties and see how easy-- in your opinion--it is to find practical materials for people with mental health problems to find information on support and other things as well as what kind of information they have about survivor/victims of crimes, etc. I have been at this now 25.75 years and believe that I have made quite a difference fighting for this but there are some librarians and law enforcement who still seem to ignore my and others requests that they get practical and easily accessible information. I have heard Keep It Simple Stupid (KISS) often over the years. You do need information that is easy to get to and useful. Mental health support systems are critical in communities to prevent people from taking out their inclinations towards violence against themselves or others. There are many good people in the Villages and I have met some of these in the eleven years I have lived in the Villages. There IS more to life than just golf. I still do not golf so maybe that is my problem. If I felt the lure of the game more, I would want to ignore other aspects of what it is to be a Villager. Many Villagers I have met will give you the shirt off their back if you ask them. Remember that these are libraries paid for with your tax dollars for the most part. So they are YOUR libraries. Same with the law enforcement agencies. Community members should be able to have input on how much these are involved with helping survivors/victims of crimes and helping those with mental illnesses. I am a law librarian by training and inclination which should mean that I try to help people get information not put up roadblocks for them getting this integral part of what should be part of a library and law enforcement's agency role in their communities. I do use the Lake and Sumter County library systems but it is hard for me to talk about all this in person because of the roots of this 224 613 Project and how traumatic they were for me and for many others. As well as how hard this fight has been at times when I was still a working law librarian or one trying to get a job as a working law librarian. Recall that my connection to all this is personal but it involves some very heavily covered media murders (one on 2-24-1976) in Reno, Nevada and as of 2015 a number in the SF Bay area in 1976. (the Gypsy Hill murders). And recall that 2-24 is also my actual birthday. I changed the one I list on TOTV because of a successful hacker attack on my AOL account a few years ago. So, get a number of reminders of all this just about every day in some form or another. Last edited by Taltarzac725; 09-13-2016 at 09:05 AM. |
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I don't think they were talking about you. Good luck in your endeavor.
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613 is the number I had in a 17 week study on stress on the unemployed conducted by the University of California, San Francisco Health Sciences Campus in late 1992-1993. I shared my cause with the interviewer I had there but she waited until the whole 17 weeks was over to tell me that this was a very worthwhile matter. She was quite a very attractive lady but driving down to SF to see her from Rohnert Park would have been quite a chore. Rohnert Park is about 30 miles north of San Francisco. I do wonder if she has noticed all the help I have been getting on this matter since we talked all those years OK. I do see her working in various roles in public health in CA. I know how to Google. I have talked to many nurses, psychiatrists, teachers, social workers, lawyers, cops, and other about this work-- some retired and some in the Villages over the years. I used to walk my pooch Amber around the movie production trailers around Rohnert Park's Red Lion Inn looking for someone to talk to but usually we just would talk about duck poop on the golf course. More golfers. The Red Lion Inn often had these movie production trailers there when I lived with my parents in Rohnert Park, CA from late 1991 through mid-1996. Our house was about 300 feet from these movie production trailers. These would be making movies in Santa Rosa CA and points north of Santa Rosa. The Red Lion Inn must have given them some kind of deal on housing these trailers there. Movies like Outbreak! Outbreak (1995) - Rotten Tomatoes DoubleTree Sonoma Hotel near Santa Rosa, CA This is not just MY endeavor. Many people are involved in it. But, we could always use more help. Maybe more talks with psychiatrists but that is a different matter. I would have to be a little crazy to keep this up for 25.75 years like I have. There is more to life than golf. I would probably enjoy it too though if I learned to play it well. Last edited by Taltarzac725; 09-13-2016 at 09:33 AM. |
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FYI The libraries here in Sumter and Lake counties are run by a company from up north, and PAID by the counties to run them. And they do run them - like a business, not a non-profit. So don't expect them to make any extra effort on your behalf.
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I have tried to get Hollywood, Wall Street, and Madison Avenue involved with this. And I am pretty certain that they are involved with it. Remember that I have been at this for 25.75 years starting when I was still working at the University of Minnesota Law Library. Then living in Rohnert Park, CA; Itasca, IL; Palm Harbor, FL., and now the Villages for the past 11 years. I had to fight off a hostile takeover of a sort of my 224 613 Project from the Palm Harbor Library Director when I volunteered there for three years in 2000-2003. I could not wait to get out of Dodge-- Palm Harbor-- and move to the Villages in June of 2005. This is an international effort of mine but involves many people. Maybe, it is the shock of the new with people just not getting it. I was in DC in May 2015 and it seemed some people --strangers-- knew about my efforts. Just a feeling though and I have nothing to document that. I do try to document stuff as much as I can as I was trained to do at the University of Minnesota Law School where I graduated in May 1989. Also have a MA in Librarianship from the University of Denver. Class of May 1984. And two BAs from the University of Nevada, Reno. (Classes of Dec. 1980, May 1981). Last edited by Taltarzac725; 09-13-2016 at 09:57 AM. |
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Damn carpetbaggers. What is it with them to use the public's money wisely.
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I have not met in person with any of these Library Directors. Again because it is often hard for me to talk about this without getting emotional. One of these Library Directors does check me out of the library once in a while. She seems very nice. And the encounters I have had with the Sumter County Sheriff's Office people have been OK. |
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And he said "I came here to play golf". I did hear the other man say "I feel sorry for him". I was the only "him" around. And I talk with many people on Facebook about my 224 613 Project. You would be surprised by just who some of these people are. I have lived in the Villages though since 2005 and have lived in Florida since 1996. And I have been on TOTV since 2007 and have 20,874 posts. Many of these are about my Project in some way. There are very caring people on TOTV. I have talked to a lot of these in person over the years since July 2007. Last edited by Taltarzac725; 09-13-2016 at 10:10 AM. |
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You left out the "I feel sorry for him." At any rate, why would you think a couple of strangers would be talking about you? If I overheard what you did, it would never occur to me they were talking about me. Although, once I overheard a woman say to her friend, "He looks like Tom Cruise.", and I was pretty sure they were talking about me. But I wasn't upset by it.
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I agree with that statement.
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And I look nothing like Tom Cruise but did e-mail him for years. Along with hundreds of other people. Tom Cruise is not one of my Facebook contacts but I have some who were close to him at various times of his career. |
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You are a wonderful person Tal.
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I think people may be talking about me all the time? Especially on the other side of the pickleball and tennis courts. I hear things like a&&$ole, lucky Shyt, jerk, and my favorite, un ? believable
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Tal, I salute you for your life's work. I'm standing up, no knee here. Keep up the good work.
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