I wrote this a few months back as I was making sense of where I was in my life. I'm still in the 'corporate' world but have been really fortunate to get into a much more engaging position than I was initially. I look to the below to be my guide as I chart the waters of the private sector...
After a few years of adventure, embracing, loving, and learning from this crazy world- I'm back in my little corner of the world, the Pacific Northwest.
I am LOVING the nature, the progressive community, and being near my incredible family, amazing lifelong friends, and most excellent partner in adventure and crime, my boyfriend, Ian. I learn so much from the people in my life and am so blessed to have a loving community, near and far.
My corporate job may leave something soulful to be desired BUT I probably would have never done a business job if it weren't for this economy. I'm trying to learn from the trenches so I can translate these lessons for future international development purposes. :D
My adventures and travels saturated me with such a beautiful patchwork muliplicity of cultures, lives, and ways of living. While loving my invitation to partake in these beautiful expressions, I felt myself a fortunate 'guest' but never an organic actor. My frustrations with injustice, power, and non-people centered political and economic structures grew more universal as did my conviction for social justice. We are all connected. These unique experiences, lessons, and adventures have allowed me to share in the abundance of the greater human experience.
My ever expanding hermeneutic invigorated but confused me as to my particular place in the world. My opportunity to share love, empowerment, and solidarity seemed stunted by my lack of rootedness.
While I love travel so very much, it was time to rediscover the good parts of my own culture- and to develop the connections and tools to provide a platform from which to project solidarity, social justice, love, cooperation, and empowerment both locally and globally.
And that is where I am at now... I hope I can do so, remaining globally connected, mindful of my goals, and always choosing the side of good, in spite of the oftentimes frustratingly distorted world system we live in. I thank the financial crisis for giving my culture and the world a forced reevaluation of the intrinsic greed which supports much of our prevailing political economy. I hope we can capture this space as a chance to connect with deeper and more lasting things like love, solidarity, relationships, social justice, and the preservation of nature- a positive reinvention of our world. Much love to you all!! :D xoxo
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