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The other day, it became blazingly clear that school was not going to happen for me this year. My student loan paperwork that I started two months ago was mysteriously lost, causing me to start the loan process AAAAALLLLL over again. I didn’t think much of it but at the same time, wondered why. My income/job situation hadn’t progressed at all, over the summer causing me to realize that I am not living in the moment enough! So I let go of my scholarly focus for this fall and concentrated on what’s going on with me now. My second attempt at student loan paperwork when NOWHERE in 2 weeks with no word back from Sallie Mae. So after a phone call, with the assistant dean of admissions at Naropa, I also found out that the MDIV program was going to go through some changes this coming school year.

Now, here I feel I have to mention that every time I went to the campus or did something related to school it didn’t feel CLOSE to me. I pay attention to what I’m working towards and keep a subconscious journal of the progress and subsequent out-come. What I have noticed is that things that I’m working towards, that I WILL reach fruition on, feel “close” to me. Things like school, never released that far away feel that it had when I started the admission process this past January. It feels like something I need to do but when I close my eyes, there is an 8-foot brick wall between the school and I. The trips to India and working with women and teen girls feels like it’s actually picking up momentum towards me, through the stratosphere.

These are the lessons I pay attention to, because there is meaning. Two days ago I started looking at Strawbale building websites for no particular reason other than I really needed one more thing to read, RIGHT. While sitting in the kitchen with Vicki yesterday, what does she mention but how a straw bale building contractor is possibly coming to live on the property soon. This is me, picking up on what the Universe is throwing my way.

So I mention to Vicki the other day that my school situation fell through for the year and she asks if I would be interested in working for her. WHAT? ARE YOU KIDDING MEEEEEEEEE????????

Today’s post is two-fold. I am getting some pictures up of where I live and what my garden looks like AND I’m playing with the photo gallery software to see if I need to come up with another gallery solution besides this one. The pictures are a week old so try to imagine everything about twice the size in the pictures posted. I have a tomato plant, cucumbers, zucchini, green beans, okra and lettuce, thanks to Ken! In about a week, I’ll be planting peas and spinach! EXCITED!

Another break through - I haven’t looked at school stuff for a month or so and went back to look at the classes involved with the Master of Divinity program and actually wrinkled my nose a bit! I went and looked at the Master of Religious Studies and it seemed PERFECT! It’s funny that I did that the same day I got an email from Ganden, one of the nuns. I miss the nuns desperately and honestly felt to my bones that if I want to study Buddhism any more, I’ll go visit the girls.

At this point, I’m not so interested in learning more about Buddhism as I am learning about inter-faith studies and dialog and what do you know? The description of the Master of Religious Studies (Theology) is exactly what I’ve been talking to people about. Spreading the inter-faith word! And The MDIV program has a LOT of counseling classes and I know that I’m not really wanting to hang my shingle out as a counselor when I graduate. I’d like to be a coach or a mentor, like I have been doing but counseling is a different direction that I’m not sure about.

Things on the farm are good. I am doing my 2 hours per week work and Jeremy is coming over and helping all the time! You get more done when there are 4 hands instead of 2! I am also looking forward to helping Vicki with Star Garden this upcoming school year. Star Garden is a Waldorf School for pre-K and K, and family education. It’s an amazing thing! And speaking of little ones, there is also a picture of the chick we saved last weekend. We helped her avoid Darwin as she got tangled in a fence. Jeremy and I untangled her and she was so dehydrated and hungry she went and attacked an apple that had fallen off of the tree. She would grab it with her beak and throw it around. Really cute to watch. The bunnies were slightly alarmed at the chick’s aggression tho.

Next post is forth-coming.

J

I LOVE this wordpress theme! And I can even change the picture when I find something really neeto to put there like when my sunflowers all bloom! SO I guess the website design saga is officially over. Be sure to come back and visit as it develops. I actually have work so I can’t blab too much but there is more to come.

I was happy with my blog theme (the big pretty sunflower) for a couple days then I realized that the rest of the page was too masculine and I was wanting to change the text in the banner. The theme that I have up now is appropriate in that it depicts a road in the banner and what I am doing and helping others to do is find their journey down their own path or road, as it were. but still there are some things I would want to tweak on it. If anyone has any suggestions, I’ll be putting up a new theme every couple of days and I want my readers to comment on what they like or dislike about what they see and feel. In the mean time I’m working on getting a GOOD gallery going for pics and video.

My good friend Michael Suko is moving to Russia in October and I am helping him get his blog up and going so he can be comfortable with it before he leaves. I’ll put his blog in my blogroll but for those of us that are a little click lazy…. www.sukoinrussia.com. It promises some great adventure and he already has pics up, from his last trips through Eastern Europe, in some of his postings. He’s new to this so we all need to be supportive!

I know, I know, I need to get some pics up of the farm and my place and I can’t seem to make that happen. huh.

That’s all for tonight.

This is the day my new website launches. It is eternally under construction, much like my life. Much like your life. Pay attention and watch it evolve, yours and mine. What a trip this has been and will be.

Seek your truth Speak your truth Live your truth

~Jen