Acceptance

Today has been a series of ups and downs, in more ways than one.  As was this weekend. 

I wish I had eloquence for the moment, but I am currently beyond that.  As such I will simply bullet my experience.

  • Missed my five year reunion due to financial difficulties.  Truly felt like I missed a huge piece of my community by doing so. 
  • Started my journey as a birth worker.  Such a huge movement in a great direction. 
  • One of my nearest and dearest friends moved away from Macon today.  I helped him clean his apartment, and pack up the uhaul.  I couldn’t bear to watch him drive away.
  • A piece I wrote was accepted into an online magazine called Rhythm of the Home, it goes live on June 1st!
  • I have a few new job opportunities on the horizon, one that I can tell you all about tomorrow.  
  • My organization launched a fundraiser a few days back.  You can find that here. We are trying to raise funds to help the next phase of our project become a reality.  We could use any help we could get.

At the moment I am trying to find piece and flow in my day to day.  Find comfort in the unknown. 

2-50ish of 200

I divested so many things, I can’t even remember.  What I do remember is…’it was cathartic, I now have room to move around my house, and so much more’.

Phew.

“Once a little boy sent me a charming card with a little drawing on it. I loved it. I answer all my children’s letters — sometimes very hastily — but this one I lingered over. I sent him a card and I drew a picture of a Wild Thing on it. I wrote, “Dear Jim: I loved your card.” Then I got a letter back from his mother and she said, “Jim loved your card so much he ate it.” That to me was one of the highest compliments I’ve ever received. He didn’t care that it was an original Maurice Sendak drawing or anything. He saw it, he loved it, he ate it.”

Maurice Sendak (via bobulate)

(via joethedough)

Skill of the month(s): February, March, April, May 2012

Woah.  I have been horrendous about this all year.  On the upside, at least I am doing well with keeping up to snuff (more or less) on my goals!

In February I learned a number of new things including how to make Yogurt, how to make bread with Quinoa, and much more. 

March was skill-less, as too was April. 

But MAY, and I am only 7 days in…My skill is event planning.  I have never organized an event from start to finish.  And I did.  I organized TEDxMacon at the Cox Capitol Theatre in Macon, Ga.  I had nearly 70 people attend, eat, drink, and listen to 8 local speakers talk about Macon and local movements.  It was thrilling, and it reminded me that I can still do things I don’t even realize I can do. 

Book 8, 9, 10, and 11

Finished the Hunger Games series (Catching Fire and Mockingjay).

Read Microfinance and its Discontents,which was a marvelous account of microfinance in Bangladesh.  It really explicated clearly the realities that microcredit is credit, and the systems it creates (specifically Grameen Bank and BRAC) cause the same issues that credit in the United States causes, just on a different scale.

At Large and At Small by Anne Fadiman, might be my 2nd collection of essays ever.  In her work she gives insight into her time at NOLS (this made me love her even more), coffee, Western Massachusetts living, and so much more.  It was beautiful, and I loved it.

Next up on my book list is a ton of Childbirth books to prep for my Doula training!

High-res Meet the newest member of my family… My Peugeot!!!! Flip-flop single-speed/fixie hub. 1970s frame.

Meet the newest member of my family… My Peugeot!!!! Flip-flop single-speed/fixie hub. 1970s frame.

Book 7 of 52

I am now officially behind!  Drat! 

What Works in Development: Thinking Big and Thinking Small

It is a collection of essays on development, economics, and some responses.  I wasn’t a fan, in fact it made me a bit angry.  But hey, it is literature in my field.