Singular Moment

There are a pair of house wrens sitting in my palo verde tree, swaying in a gentle east wind on Sunday morning. They are oblivious to this singular moment in my life, the advent of my first blog to the world "out there".

It's amazing that everyone of us "little people" can now blog our hearts out, having our say, and connecting with readers in every nook and cranny of the earth. So, here goes!

Write for Change is both my business and personal practice. I prepare grant proposals, write articles, conduct research and write reports - for the people and businesses I believe in. I also write articles, essays and books about nature and society.

For years I worked for universities, school districts, and other large corporate groups, and frankly it killed my creativity and zest for life. To me American corporate worklife is debilitating. Not only do we work too much, but we are forced into schedules that may or may not fit with our own natural biorythms, and we rarely ever get a chance to do what it in our hearts.

For years I lived in this manner, always dreaming of when I would write my book, or create something.

So, about three years ago I stepped out of that paradigm into a new one I created for myself. It's been kind of scary sometimes, not having much money in the bank and now having to pick up my own medical, etc. etc. But, let me tell you - it's been worth every moment of doubt!

Over the last three years I finally wrote a memoir - a record of my political coming of age. Trying to find a publisher right now. My rejection rate to date is currently 60% (3 out of 5 publishers). If I get to 100% I intend to publish the damn thing myself and put it online!

My latest adventure is a fiction book about the year 3000. It is my attempt to bring a positive vision of how the human community learns to live sustainably on the earth. Naturally, I had to obliterate all current geopolitical boundaries and establish a new way for humans to organize themselves!

I will be featuring segments of the book on this blog and hope you will join me in figuring out how we get from 2005 when the world is in a real mess, to 3000 when human communities live within an ecologically sustainable paradigm with all the rest of life on earth.

Till then,
Susan