Introduce yourself!
Friday, October 24, 2008
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We’ve been doing The Sunny Way for more than 6 months now, and we’ve learned a lot. At this point, though, what we’d most like to learn about is you, our readers. The site stats say you are here, and though we hear from you sometimes, we want to know more about who you are, what you care about, and what you like and want from The Sunny Way so we can give you more and more of it.
Our goal with this site is to build a community of people who are willing to stand up and be the ones to make the world the way it ought to be. So please chime into the comments today, introduce yourself, and get to know your fellow future creators.
What are you up to? What do you want to create? What are you struggling with and how can The Sunny Way support you?
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Hi,
My name is Sarah Moon. I teach writing and coordinate undergraduate writing tutoring at Baruch College in New York. I’ve lived in New York for a little over four years, but have previously lived in Massachusetts, L.A., Tacoma, Boulder and Milwaukee. I really like the east coast, but find myself occasionally worn thin by the city pace and crowds and dream of one day living in a home that has closer access to nature - the forest, the ocean, open fields. I’m a playwright and have spent 2008 developing a script about mountain top removal coal mining and the history of electricity with my theatre company Headwater Productions. We also hosted an event this summer called New York Loves Mountains to bring awareness to New Yorkers about mountain top removal and create a bridge between New Yorkers and Appalachians. For more information on our work, you can check out: http://www.nylovesmountains.com.
I love reading the Sunny Way and feeling the positive, authentic spirit of its contributors. I really believe there’s potential to reorient human society toward a healthy, sustainable relationship with nature. But it is going to take spreading that faith to everybody. Thanks to everybody who is playing a part.
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How do I introduce myself? I’m from a small town in Ohio with lots of trees and lakes. Right, Megan? I never really missed the trees and lakes until I moved to Los Angeles. The city ways were stifling, oppressive, psychologically weirding ... and I found myself at Griffith Park at every chance I could get. This was the beginning of consciously connecting with nature, as growing up ... it was always there. I moved to Albuquerque after 4.5 years in Los Angeles. The power in the land there spoke to me in ways where the land could do in a lesser degree in Los Angeles (for obvious reasons). That’s when I started really thinking about Ecopsychology, the possibility of human beings connecting to the elements for sustainable relationships with all of life (especially, but not more importantly, human beings).
I then applied and attended Prescott College in Arizona where I studied “Ecopsychology and Psychosocial Transformation.” I utilized the lens of Hua-Yen Buddhism, its view of mutual identity, interpenetration and inter-causality (arising out of emptiness) as a model for realigning our perception to see the totality of life (oneness), to develop compassion as a means towards psychosocial transformation; really transcendence, but ... whatever. So, I wrote my thesis as “Perceiving Oneness for Compassionate Action.”
I work in San Francisco with youth in the juvenile justice system, doing job placement, job development, case management, while teaching life skills and jobs skills. I live in Oakland. I hike a lot. I love baseball. I meditate. I do yoga. I smoke a tobacco pipe. I love Bourbon. I love music. I’m healing psychological fragmentation.
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Sarah and Brandon, thanks so much for letting us know about the work you are doing. It’s so great to see like-minded folks connecting via The Sunny Way!
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