Closing the Chapter on the Past
Acknowledgements
- Getting mushroom grant and completing it
- Getting full-ride scholarship because of HS performance
- Working in community gardens
- For my part in supporting many projects
- For being part of an awesome/supportive community in Norman
- For contributing to the OK food coop. Volunteering/Board/Working/Writing Grants
- Living on $500/mo for 4 years with no help from Parents
- Got a job at U of OK and got caught up
- For giving birth to Dhara (at home, no pain killers)
- For getting (10 hour) tattoo
- For living without a car for most of adult life (even taking Dhara to day-care)
- For making it through my relationship with my ex-husband -- and taking him to NVC class
- Running a mushroom farm for 4 years with a baby
- For enrolling in Gaia U
- For taking Computer Programming Courses
- For coming here, taking the risk, leaving the familiar for an unknown possibility
- For her focus and discipline
- For putting yourself in this situation and being vulnerable
- For embracing your growth and not giving up when it was hard and challenging
- For being so sweet and loving
- For my relationship with Russell … for me being sweet, supportive and understanding
- For being coachable, by Mary, Eric, and everyone
- For being able to use Eric as a mirror and learn from him no matter what he was saying
- For continuing to create positive experiences for Dhara (Waldorf, kids to play with, part of community)
- For baking skills and nutella frosting
- For pursuing what you believe in... having the strenght and courage to do so.
- For your dedication and effort that you put forward in all things
- For your commitment for what's possible for humanity
- For your fearless pursuit of that commitment, even without all the answers.
Completion
- Giving up on OK... Food Coop... Commonwealth Neighborood...
- Getting a degree in Computer Programming
- Mushroom farm... everything in OK....
- Getting Married (as a failure)
- Russell... not being able to work things out with him
- Give up living up to any standard of normalcy
- Not knowing how to engage people in MY thing
Sharing a Glimpse of an Inspiring Future
Where's inspiration and passion calling you now?
- Taking things to the next level...
- Expanding network of committed people and world-changing ideas
- Finding a lever to be able to use that ^ network
- New possibilities I'm being called toward
- Learning Holacracy
- Be involved in teaching/advising/building together at an incubator, or with a team
- Co-Invent with other fellow explorers
- More belly-dancing
- More Japanese
- Living in community
- Where I can ride by bike to work
- More learning opportunities... business side of things... incubator....