SubscribeOK. So I may maintain a “salon”. But I don’t think it works online. At least not for me. So I’m ditching the “Dear Friends” (although I may work it into a new banner sometime in my non-copious free time!).
This is the place I’m going to work through some of my current phases. I’m in what Barbara Sher calls an “adolescence” right now… working on changing my life in positive ways. And it’s working. It really is.
By the way, March was the 30th anniversary of Wishcraft. It’s a wonderful book. And it’s now got it’s own website, and is available for free as pdfs! It’s funny. I took one of her free seminars in Eugene what… 14-15 years ago? What I remember most of all was that my dream wasn’t all that big – I wanted to make my living writing and making art, not working for someone else. During the brainstorming session, while I could come up with ideas for the woman who wanted to raise white tigers, and every one else could too, NOT ONE PERSON had ANY ideas for what I could do to get to mine. Not one. Talk about depressing. But I’ve been using her planning techniques for almost everything I do/did since then. It works. And I realized that I’m 1/2 way to that dream of mine: it’s just the “for myself” part that’s still out there waiting for me. And I’m getting all the butterflies and the tied up knots she talks about every time I take another step towards it.
So. I’m going to try not to whine, but what I WILL do is show you some of the techniques and resources that I’m using to get to where I want to be, show you how they are working (or not) and we can go from there.
I’m going to try to post regularly, because this idea won’t work without that kind of structure.
Me. You. Shall we start this journey?
Ryan 
This post made me think about last Sunday. I finally did what I have been intending to do for awhile and visited the Universalist Church here. What relates is the sermon. He was suggesting we ask ourselves, “What is our mission”. And to recognize the mission could be different at work at home, etc.
It sounds like part of your mission might be to teach? Teach what? Teach who?
Now to go find my notes. I think I’ll be returning there and see if it can help me with my need of community – that is more than primarily women. (Belly dance and embroidery are primarily community of women – shouldn’t be, but that’s how it’s appearing here.) And I need live community, not all online.
{{Hugs}}