Creatorship

Spirit In Gear: Feeling the Vibes, or Why My Husband Told Me to Buy a Lottery Ticket

"A 10 unit real estate package is coming together; a seller calls me with a great brick ranch that she wants to unload at wholesale pricing; a rehabbed house we are selling continues to pass the FHA loan hurdles for our buyer; and last but not least, I receive a phone call from a realtor we've employed to sell my father's condo in Ohio.  He shares the good news that the condo is now under contract, one week after being listed, with an offer for more than we expected.  Considering that the town my father's condo is in has the lowest real estate sales in the entire state of Ohio, I am blown away."

via movingspirit.typepad.com

Setting intention is a skill and an art. Debbie Call does a beautiful job of sharing the role of feeling in this process.

Election musings

"We stand behind an old, but enduring idea, a conservative idea in the best sense, that the American dream of a democracy driven by informed and committed citizens is both an aspiration and a necessity. We believe that we are currently falling short in meeting this end, and that we must think anew about how to achieve it."  Dr. Theodore Sizer (2002)

"The real world is not a series of set, pre-digested answers," he [Dr. Sizer] said in an interview with John Merrow, "the real world is a set of questions."

from The Leverage Points blog by Vicky Schubert

It is election time in Ohio.  Barraged by one liners designed to arouse emotion and sway opinion but not necessarily inform, Dr. Sizer's words seem even more important.  I'm amazed and humbled at how hard it is to determine the facts behind some of the issues on the ballot in this information age.

Indeed, the real world is a set of questions: What values am I seeing here? What are the long term consequences of this choice? What are the systemic issues not being addressed?

It takes courage and determination to research and think through the choices before us; to not mindlessly buy into the propaganda of either side but choose to the best of our ability.  

Here's to the democratic process and to individual freedom and responsibility!  We have no one to blame and only ourselves to give credit to.

Image from the College of Liberal Arts & Science, University of Florida