Sorry it’s been so long. But here I am now!
A handful of distracting situations kept me/us away.
All of them, almost monstrously BIG!
Here are some of them; an accounting now that we seem to be clearing the way to get back to normal, or some new normal still developing.
Number One: Recall we had a flood disaster up in our neck of the woods, including roads closed – and cell towers disabled.
Both of these, general flood disaster and cell tower problems, plus the flood damage to our physical property, were enough to make life really difficult for close to two months or so.’’ Once the roads opened things starting improving.
But, guess what!!! The cell tower got redirected, leaving those of us in this very lightly populated, mountain area where we reside with almost no cell tower service, at all!
They can do that, you know! And, too bad for you, if you are affected. Scary, too, like the time we were without electricity for eighteen hours and I had almost no phone service at all and the little I had was diminishing fast!
Few phone calls and no radio shows. We could not get into our broadcast studio!
Very few blog postings (Take a quick look at how many for August, to date.) -- and a whole slew of other inconveniences that modern day people rely on, like sending and receiving emails so you can continue necessary contacts to make things, of one sort and another, move along fairly easily.
Now after almost four months of dealing with this interruption, I seem, as of last week, to be making some headway on cellular service, with Verizons, now, instead of A T and T who most uncaringly reduced my cell service, without an eye blink, of course!
Number Two: For me, personally, there has, also been, the getting used to cutting back my New Horizons hours, by fifty percent – and – refocusing my time management to allow for all my Ethics Complaint process has been and will continue to take from me on a daily basis, possibly for a year or more, it seems.
That whole deal is turning my life upside down. If I am able to even begin getting caught up on my minimum of four posts per month for this blog site, I may have more to say on the subject, soon, on my Anastasia The Storyteller blog site.
In the meantime, suffice it to say my "World (has been) Turned Upside Down In The Process Of Making It Right Side Up!"
Number Three: If you have had opportunity to listen to the few radio shows we have been able to do (us, now being Steve, my new co-host and myself) you will know already that not only am I, now, dealing with a most unexpected #MeToo-type problem but so is Steve.
You can hear a bit of Steve's drama, as a “MALE” #MeToo victim on ---
(Details forthcoming.)
Number Four: OMG!! In the time I/we have been away, two other board members besides Steve and myself, also broke out with #MeToo-type problems.
OMG!!! This stuff is contagious! It now has hit four of our board members out of six!
Add that to the fact that one of our board members also lost her home to the California Carr Fire !!
OMG some more!!!
Of course, as a zones of peace-building organization, we’ve got to keep doing our charity at home, first, by taking care of one another through our trials and tribulations.
Believe me, all these happenings have been taking their toll in time, energy and sometimes emergency resources. And this is only a brief summary of where we've been since our annual board meeting last month. Just imagine the details of living this stuff!
However, we are grateful for how our New Horizons Community Support Network (circa 1980) is pulling together and helping one another care for each other, these days.
We’ve had this bounty of community support for decades. However, our Beloved Community Development Mentor, Murat Yagan, strengthened our knowing that of all the essentials necessary for healthy growth, healing and transformation, a community of like-minded others is NUMBER ONE!
Like-minded about what, you might ask? I’d say like-minded about whatever it is that allows people to work together for the good of the whole. Read through the postings on this site and you will find innumerable philosophical perspectives and applications for the like-mindedness shared by the New Horizons Support Network Board of Directors and our many followers of decades.
Number Five: Labor Day is on the horizon, signaling the beginning of our busy activities season through to next June.
So, we’ve been putting some of our “spare” time into Fall planning which is something I am looking forward to telling you about next.
Our Fall plans begin at our baseline, our Beyond Gender Tyranny Movement, Project and Programs. For this relatively new initiative, we are wanting to broadcast how well equipped we are to educate and guide our listeners, readers and program participants in “Moving Beyond Gender Tyranny.”
Since I’m, now, giving you a brief summary of where I/we have been, look forward to my next postings when I announce plans for where we are heading.
Whew!! I’m sure glad I was able to get this update posted for you.
I’ve been missing writing my posts, so much, for old faithful readers and new ones. But all that has been happening seemed totally daunting to even begin telling.
Nonetheless, here it is, in brief. I did it!
And I’m now glad to be back, with hopes I will be able to be regular from here on out.
But who can tell, from day to day, what will happen next.
My Ethics Complaint, all of its own, with its many highs and lows, keeps my life and me upside down!!
