It Takes a Village

If I got pulled over and were asked to walk a straight line, I would so fail a field sobriety test. I have walked the line, though incredibly indirect, to get to a place of peace. This gift of balance, this ability to ride the fence and wear many hats is a direct result of my open mind, objective nature and willingness to try anything. I decided in high school I would be a writer and took off to Appalachian State University to major in English Education. I changed my mind the next year and wanted to be a city planner because the population of the world is growing so fast and I wanted to help people plan self sustaining communities so people could depend on their neighbors. I majored in Community and Regional Planning and minored in Geography, Political Science, and Computer Information Systems. Then I partied, got kicked out and came back to major in English Education again. I dropped out after one semester of that and delivered pizzas, monitored the I've-Fallen-and-Can't-Get-Up alarms then ended up at Forsyth Tech in X-ray school and graduated from there with a degree in Diagnostic Medical Sonography five months pregnant with a ten month old on my hip in 2001.

I ended up in medicine and devoted myself to taking care of people. I have done something to my right arm and am unable to take care of people by doing ultrasound. I found something called Sound Energy Healing that has opened doors to me. It has made me believe I can make a living writing. And imaging, like I did professionally in the field of medicine for 10 years. And I will be learning how to do Sound Energy Healing so will be using sound medically (alternative medicine) like I have for the past 10 years. This gives me vision for my community. My vision for Iredell county is to make a community that encompasses like minded people who love arts, who believe in nature, eating well, spirituality and helping each other out, much like I had hoped for when I wanted to be a city planner. I had a fleeting thought that I may want to keep what I plan to do to myself so I don't have competition, but I had a fortune cookie that said it was best to partner with like minded people. I remembered what I have been told numerous times...you can't keep it if you don't give it away.