STRENGTH, PATIENCE AND HONESTY

  Read a small anecdote yesterday which appeared to have a message of great import to us here struggling to right the wrongs of our Village. The story goes like this: a father and son are walking along the beach and the son asks the father if he can do anything he sets his mind to do. The father says yes, if you use all the strength you have. Well, the son spots a huge rock and asks if the father thinks he, the son, can move it. The father says yes, but reminds him that he must use all his strength. Son tries and fails and disputes the father's previous sayings. The father says no, you did not use me.
     We learn from this a new way for the old but tried message that one cannot do much, but many, together, can and if we remember that, if we join together, we, too, can move rocks, the rocks of UCO administration at present and fill in the hole that remains with better, fresher, more open  people.
     Read a lot yesterday, so came across an interesting piece about patience. Patience, we are told, the ability to wait, has grown less these days. People are too used to instant gratification, be it buying a pair of shoes from Zappo or Amazon Prime or getting an answer to a question they asked of whomever. The writer then adds that there are two "waitings" to be discussed, one that occurs when waiting in line for a bus, for payment and there is nothing to be done but wait. The other waiting is more active, for one has to know that sometimes the end of waiting has come and the time for active participation has arrived. We here in the Village are in that second waiting and the time for action has come - and we are trying, are we not - and succeeding to a great degree.
     Questions are being answered, or at least to some degree, and we will continue to push on that. The Kelly situation still needs lots and lots more work to make sure that the owners are okay and these undesirable renters are out with no more to come, no more shoppers, no more beggars, no more non investigated people. Renters are active parts of our population and can contribute much, to a limited point, but are welcome - if they are a proper fit and I know many that are, but we must be careful to whom we rent and even to whom we sell.
     Finally, I came across a statement that one character said to another. She said that while smoking hurts the heart, dishonesty kills it and living in dishonesty is living an active sin. Interesting thoughts there, are they not? 
     We must all wait patiently together at times and actively wait together at others. The security situation is a prime example. It has been wrong from the getgo! From its inception! We were told that it was the best contract ever - our attorney thought so and excuse me, what attorney? Tennyson! If so, c'mon, get real. Then even as complaints arose from day one we were told that we were wrong, Ed Black told people to go call 911, we lost the ability to call for help unless the gatehouse agreed!  Our valid complaints were sloughed off by Black and Israel and Black waxed poetic is defending the contract. And well he should and would as he was the prime mover behind this sham of a contract, forced upon us in the usual sleight of hand manner, with half truths and outright lies. Once again they are trying to say that a main cause was the lack of wi fi so cameras could not work. Well, batteries do! And there are numerous police departments that have body cameras and the places are NOT wi - fied. Batteries work!!!
     The whole voting on the issue to send a notice is swathed in layers and layers of fog and even the Executive Board meeting where Black told some of the truth that he so often denied, was poorly attended, even by the officers of UCO. Why the hell did they run if they were never going to be at meetings? Because this is what Israel wanted. This is how he maintains his third world dictatorship. This is how he maintains his hold on UCO - by controlling the people who work in it and refusing all fresh blood, new volunteers. 
     Passive wait no longer. Active wait's time is here. Join in and let us get them out. Term limits and remember - we are here and no matter what and who we have , we are always going to be here for the residents. That is our purpose - certainly mine. I need no office - only my blog - to praise, to question, to suggest.