It's Official - I'm a Lobo

Well, I've gone and done another thing I never thought I'd ever get to do... I registered for classes at a four-year-university.

Despite being accepted to a prestigious art school my senior year of High School, I never actually figured I was capable of earning a 4-year-degree.  Not because I thought I wasn't smart enough, but because I did not have the resources available to me to do it.  Mostly, I did not have the emotional or psychological support, and instead, often found myself at odds with those who were supposed to help and guide me.

But here I am, at the age of nearly 53, a Junior at UNM, and loving every second of it.

Finally, I am able to focus on myself instead of working to put someone else through school, as I did with my ex husband and my son.

Finally, it is this tired old woman's turn to try to make something with the gifts God has given me.

I am more grateful for this than anyone could ever imagine, and I am praying nothing gets in my way of walking down the isle at graduation.

Because my long-term goal is to become a counselor to folks who need the support of someone who's been through it, someone who has built up a toolbox of things that can help.  I also want to design a new school system that produces children who blossom into wholesome, well-educated, well-nourished, well-rounded, and fully engaged adults, a school system that is in the students' best interests.

I mean... now that I am about to graduate with my first college degree in a couple of week, an AA in Psychology, I feel anything is possible at this point. So, why not work to build a better tomorrow for everyone?  Right?

What have I got to lose?

So, that brings me here, where Education Matters, where we can together discuss all the ways we can grow education into something self-sustaining and quite frankly... masterful.

We know the formula for happy, healthy, successful people, so let's start employing it now, let's start making positive changes that brings humanity fully into a new and lasting renaissance that will take us all out past the stars.


Namaste
The Storyteller