RCSC’s Interim General Manager’s Invitation to meet

Neither, brought my own coffee, but when i finished that, i had to make a cup of the flavored K-cup in the room. I told myself i wasn't going to speak, my bad, as i was unable to sit in silence.

With all of that out of the way, today proved one thing to me...our path forward is on a personal level. We've all fallen into the social media trap, the newspaper trap, the giant meeting trap, the new website will save us trap. We've forgotten the incredible value of face to face two-way interpersonal relationships that results in human to human contact. We all want the glitzy easy answers to becoming better, to becoming whole as a community, as a society.

There-in is the fallacy and the failure of expecting technology to fix us. Hell, if anything, A. I. will make it all worse. Nope, not saying we can't use them, i am saying they cannot be the crutch we lean on and into. Goodness, i've known this for more years than i can count, i just lost sight of how incredibly important human interaction on a personal level is.

We can blame the pandemic, we can blame the splintered political environment, but the reality of where we live, how unique it is and the incredible structure we were built on and around makes it all so easily doable. There's no magic potion, no wand to wave, we simply have to start putting people in rooms and sharing their experiences. Today proved that to me 100%

Don't get me wrong, there needs to be structure, planning, cooperation and tools to measure whether we are meeting set goals. Hell, we need to start by setting goals, what we want to accomplish and how we are going to do that. Imagine, a community asking members to step up and become part of the solution by talking to other members. How hard is that?

My apologies for making this sound simple, but i am here to tell you, it is. In a world where everything is crashing, colliding and moving way to fast for most of us senior citizens...lets return to our roots, slow down and embrace the idea our community is better than all that. Embrace the idea that our salvation is embodied in each of us.

Let me give you my best logical assessment: Tom Marone and i could not be further apart politically. That said, we are friends because i know how much he loves Sun City. That's what matters to me; when i walked out of the room today, all i cared about was the fact i was sitting there chatting with RCSC members and the interim general manager who all wanted one/the same thing...Sun City to be the best it can be.

Let me be ever more clear/blunt: That doesn't happen because of the organizations; that comes from each and every one of us. We are the organizations, we are the community, we are Sun City.

 

Great new choice on golf director.
Glad you all had fun and it was a positive experience.
We need to be kinder to each other.
We are very fortunate that Mike stepped up to be interim manager and that we have good people in most of the other positions.