My Nine Lives. Every time I visit Whidbey Institute I meet someon from one of my past or present lives. So, here's where I've been, and shown up, perhaps we've met before in another life.
Life Number 1; Catholic School Girl; nun-in-training; science fair national finalist, Southern California; resided in: Hollywood.
Life Number 2; Member of the Immaculate Heart Community in Hollywood, California. Corita Kent, my mentor, "Witness to Integrity" by Anita Caspari, my hero. Taught elementary school in Artesia, South San Francisco, Visalia, California
Life Number 3; Human potential movement. Carl Rogers, Kairos Instutite in Rancho Santa Fe, California, Staff; Liz Campbell, friend and housemate. Studied electronic music composition and improvisation with Pauline Oliveros at UCSD in La Jolla. New Adult Community based upon Paolo Freire's educational pedgogy.
Life Number 4; Women's movement; Delegate to International Women's Peace Conference, Vancouver, BC. Women's Spirituality solitary ritual practitioner, Spirituality and Ritual.
Life Number 5; Progressive Political Movement. Marched with Caesar Chavis, Delano March, worked in Gilroy migrant camps. Civil Rights movement, Angela Davis, security; demonstrations in Raleigh North Carolina; Draft counseling at camp Pendelton; Anti nuclear movement; Medical Commitee for Human Rights; Co-founder, New World Resource Center in Chicago; Peace movement, Vietnam, Gulf wars 1 & 2.
Life Number 6; Clinical nurse specialist, UCSF, aging and mental health, . community health. Advisor to Health Canada. Labor organizing, California legislative commitees, Professional organizing. Published Nuclear War and Nursing Ethics with ethicist Andrew Jameton. Community organizing, Chicago.
Life Number 7; Anthropologist, influenced by Gregory Bateson, Mary Catherine Bateson, George Lakoff, generative semantics, Cognitive linguistics. Metaphors of Care, the Invisible Work of Nursing. PhD, from University of Missouri, Columbia, MO.
Life Number 8; Anthropology professor, grant writer, project manager, non-tenured radical, seminars, personal growth and professional development. Columbia, Mo. Edmonton Alberta, Greensboro, NC, Peoria Ill.
Live Number 9; PeerSpirit Circle practitioner in the classroom, influenced by Christina Baldwin & Ann Linnea; Lover/spouse/partner to MK Sandford, 5 acre forest steward, family forest farmer in training; ; co-housing with Pete Little and Mokihana Calizar; shared land. Whidbey Island. Board of Directors, Transition Whidbey. Residing on Whidbey Island
I everything I know I learned by experience, and everything I have yet to learn as well. Enough about me, I'd like to learn more about you. Lets meet for a cup of coffee virtual or face to face. I live near Mukilteo Coffee on Crawford Rd.
