Ocala’s Hometown Celebrity

OK I’m going to say it.  John Travolta and Kelly Preston are just like me.  They call Marion County, Florida home, and so do I.  O.K. we aren’t neighbors (have you seen the layout of their house in Jumbolair?), and I haven’t seen them in Starbucks or Cold Stone Creamery or Target like I’ve heard from so many others around town.  So maybe that’s where our story ends.  Actually there has recently been a bit more to the dialogue than just the physical address.

When John Travolta said for the first time in September 2009 that his family member (his son) was autistic, we have a connection!  When I learned that the newly formed Jett Travolta Foundation strives to assist children with hearing, vision, mobility, communication and learning impairments, we have a connection!  When he sets up fundraisers in Ocala to benefit multiple charitable causes about which I am interested as well, we have a connection! Granted tomorrow evening they are hosting an event Ocala that is the same night and time as our Elegant Evening of Thanks.  Then again the fact that we are talking about competing with John Travolta means we have a connection!

How far that connection goes from here only remains to be seen.  I hope we can make even more connections to Ocala’s Hometown Celebrity in the future.  The point is, as I mentioned in a previous blog post, we are all connected to someone who is developmentally disabled.  How you choose to further build upon your own connections is up to you.