I’m back!
It’s the last day of August! Zowie, the summer has flown by!
No soap box this week.
Although……
Terry’s been in the paper a bit recently. The Sheriff’s office raised the security rate by 40% for the Homosassa Arts, Crafts, and Seafood Festival. (Terry’s the chairperson of the festival) So he was on the front page of the Chronicle. He was also part of the whole park debacle that was discussed in the paper. There was an editorial this week about the park and the writer did not have his facts right. The basic premise was correct and the writer agreed that Old Homosassa needs a waterfront park. And said that it would help tourism.
But that’s not soap box stuff. Hey it was in the newspaper!
Primary elections are over. Yay! But now we get to enjoy all the political nonsense for the general election.
Monday is Labor Day! The unofficial start of Fall. Or I like to call it the REAL beginning of Hurricane Season. And stop wearing white! Except for your underwear. That’s okay!
Old Homosassa Learning Center Update!!!!
The local paper, Citrus County Chronicle, published the adult schedule. Not for the first time—but this time it made an impact!
Zumba Gold is REALLY popular. Women came out in the rain Wednesday night to join in. Old Homosassa gets serious floods when we have a minor rainstorm so I’m sure they had to wade in! I’m not going yet. Still waiting for a few more weeks for my foot to heal.
Yoga continues and is WONDERFUL!
But the ukulele class. The schedule said that we had “beginning uke” at 10:30. CRAZY CAKES! So many of our community want to learn ukulele! And we have our volunteer Anita that wants to bring them along.
The Sew Cool Workshop brings new people in every week. But not from Old Homosassa. The coach and I are the only members that actually live here. We have women from Sugarmill Woods, Crystal River, Citrus Hills, and Beverly Hills. Even an occasional tourist pops in to sew. That’s okay. Meeting fun new people that share a craft.
We are working on the kid schedule for the learning center. Already have the Girl Scouts meeting in there on Thursdays and have two other enrichment programs starting the week of September 10th. Very excited about our new format. I’ll tell you more in weeks to come!
Okay. Now I’m going to talk about deep stuff. (Not on a soapbox,just deep thoughts)
For the last two years, the whole after school program has been difficult. My personal mission is to help the kids. But it’s not that easy. I don’t want the learning center to be an after school free daycare center. And that’s what it has been since it started.
And I have worked very hard to reach out to people to make the after school program work. But it didn’t. And it won’t. It was a difficult lesson for me.
Time for a reboot. And time for me to listen to the universe.
What we were doing is not working. Stay calm. Just wait for the answer. It will come.
I continue to make kids my own personal mission. And the mission of the Learning Center.
It. Will. Come.
Actually. It. Is. Here.
More info in the weeks to come!!!!
Have a great weekend and holiday!
Kathy