If you’ve been following my blog articles for the past few months you can probably intuit, even if I did not come right out and say it, there has been so much chaos going on at and around New Horizons, that it’s hard to stay settled for long.
For example, take a look at my Beyond Gender Tyranny collection of articles on Anastasia The Storyteller.
There you will read about the upheaval going on in my life, personally, due to an Ethics Complaint for sexual harassment and power abuse against one of my former clinical trainers.
Also, note that that circumstance, alone, has brought me to cut back my regular hours, by half, as Executive Director of New Horizons. If you can’t imagine it, let me tell you, a ship without a captain, or one who works only half-time, is not a great deal. The dearth of blog articles posted to this site for months, if you have noticed, will drive the point home of the upheaval with which we have been dealing.
Add to that, the general chaos in the world around us, political and #MeToo-oriented, for starters. Then count in, OMG, what else????
In the midst of this turmoil, yesterday, order followed disorder, if only for a short time, when, after months of struggling to get back on the air with New Horizons online radio shows: Anastasia The Storyteller and The Possible Society In Motion Radio, I had a breakthrough!
To accomplish this, I had to practically slither into my Anastasia The Storyteller show studio to do the broadcast.
However, all in all, the show didn’t come off too poorly, especially as the sound quality was fine most of the time, in spite of the fact that I had to manage losing my wireless connection, one time, to carry it off.
I’d like all of you to hear this show titled “Chaos Test” that I went through so much to present.
Maybe you could rate me, as to how I sounded on the air, doing almost every imaginable, behind-the-scenes gyration to come off, even mildly, with a few decent comments shared for the duration.
We were certainly testing the chaos, doing this show, seeing if we could best and surmount it.
If you do listen, you will save me the toil and trouble of further explaining about the tech end of the chaos we’ve been encountering, at New Horizons, for months, trying to do what used to be simple; the broadcasting of a once a week online radio show.
Without doubt, we’ve had a hard time connecting with you, our radio show listeners, due to the CHAOS we’ve been experiencing on multiple levels. That’s why we titled this show “Chaos Test.”
Bottom Line: Yesterday, we were testing to see if we could go beyond the chaos of our radio show that we couldn’t actually air -- and -- defeat the obstacles our wireless service had placed in our way.
And, we succeeded!
On ground level, again and again, for going on five months, we have been attempting to transcend obstacles, brought about by a flood disaster in our locale. The flood catastrophe brought much upheaval to our generally serene mountain living, bringing us down in several MAJOR ways:
- Our only direct connection to a main highway has been closed – and – may not yet re-open for months to come. OMG!! This will depend on how soon engineers and contractors of the Harpers Ferry National Historical Park Service can clear and make safe again an area that suffered a rock slide on to a connecting roadway;
- A T and T, our former cell provider had one of its towers downed in our area due to extremely heavy rains and flood conditions; and
- Finding us undeserving of improved cell service when they righted it, they redirected the repaired tower signal so far from our very sparsely populated expanse we had almost no signal at all.
Nonetheless, pressing forward, I did accomplish a full broadcast show, yesterday, if only for a brief fifteen minutes!
Therefore ---- Steve and I hope to be back with you next week, anticipating a full run on both of our radio show programs, to help you, our listeners, find better and better ways to move Beyond Gender Tyranny.
Our next scheduled broadcast will be on Anastasia The Storyteller Radio with a program titled –
Scheduled for Tuesday, October … at 11:30 a.m.
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