Mr. Toads Wild Ride

This has deffinately been an roller coaster week.  I have felt the swoosh of decending down the steep hill only to dip back up to crest of another peak.  When all looks lost we must look forward and continue on. 

The week started with the loss of an important sector key to taking this thing to the next level, the battered women we were training.  It looked hopeless, like this was yet ANOTHER set back to getting the co-op started,  but the universe will provide.  Another door has opened, and the future looks bright for now.  

  I am learning that when dealing with a completely different culture, and being thousands of miles away, that in and of itself presents a  whole new set of challenges, but also the uncertainty that we constantly face.  Will we be thrown out of our current location?  What if we loose our current group of women?  What will happen to them?  How will we get more funding?  How do I make the most of our virtual networks? How do I maximize our exposure? If it were easy then everyone would be doing it.  

  For now the program will continue in a positive direction inching closer to formation of a knitting co-op.  Closer to having these women who have been cast aside by society to having a better future. Closer to that utopian world I so dream of.  I am a realist, I understand that true utopia will never exist, but is it so bad to continue to strive for it?  

  In the meantime I will continue to learn more about the virtual network and how to build it.  How to best gain exposure in this mass market glut of NPO's all looking to grow and gain market share.  Each one having a compelling story, each one looking to be heard.  I will look for the formula that resonates out.  I will shamelessly advocate for those whom society has cast aside because they were broken.  I will advocate for their repair because I care, because they are worth something.  I will advocate on their behalf because they can't.  Someone has to speak for the voiceless, until they can find their own.  I will do what I can.
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