Laziness Gene

I knew it wasn't my fault.....

The Call

I am going to take a plunge. I am feeling the call. Has anyone here heard of the Hero cycle. Joseph Cambell has studied mythology and has drawn the diagram as above he calls the Hero Cycle. Its not quite as I learned it but its close. He has written a book called the hero of a thousand faces.
I am about to embark on an adventure of my own. I am feeling the call to go back to school. How very exciting. I will be taking distance study classes, one at a time because keep in mind I still have 6 children that I home school. I am on the 10 year plan to a bachelors degree. It will probably take that long but I feel it needs to be done. The thought keeps me up at night. I want to study the humanities, Philosophy, History, Literature, Art, Music, and yes I guess Math. I guess because math is truth math is beautiful. I need to search more to find the beauty in Math.
I will be starting this fall, and away I go.
Dr Demille of George Wythe College teaches the hero cycle slightly differently, but the call and roadblocks are still the same. Needing a mentor, knowing your Tests, Traps, and trials. This can be the path to success.
But the Call is coming in loud and clear. I will answer or I will stay on the path to mediocrity.


Just an update on August 18 I have decided not to go back this year. It is a right thing for me to do but not a right now thing... Odd but true...

Warming of the Heart

Somethings just warm my heart. I saw this today and got emotional about it. I am getting emotional about a lot of things lately. But this will be my research project for the day.
In the Lift organization that I am a part of my Friend Stacy Nicol talks about See a Need Fill a Need, and to me this is a great example. 77% of people involved turn their lives around.
I will be learning more on this.

Update
I love Wikipedia, it can answer so many questions.

How great for the world to unite on this. This is a good thing happening in the world.
Canada is having a championship game in Calgary to see who represents Canada in Melbourne in December. Do you think TSN will air it?

Service is love

In Joshua 14 Joshua says he has strength yet for another mountain. I hear this and it makes me tired.

I understand Valleys are a natural part of taking on a mountain and maybe I should realize I am in a metaphorical valley at the moment. It seems to me that a way out of my Valley is to serve others and to love them.






My kids are angels because even thought I am not a picnic to live with right now they are still really really great kids.

We are going to learn to serve each other this week. I have decided that when there is a fight or quarrel we will work together. So we will either learn to love work or learn to love each other.

There are days when I feel completely at ease that I am creating the village I want my children raised in, I am planting the Oaks to shade them. Then there are days when the Laundry isn't done in 5 loads and I think I am drowning in house work and realize that I have neglected the home front a little to long. Where is the balance?
I have a mission yes that I know, but some days I feel that my mission is doing laundry. H.G. wells said that "Men who think in lifetimes are of no use to statesmanship." Meaning, and I agree with this, that we need to think Generational. What kind of mothers am I raising? Another scary question.
To many rhetorical questions going through my head today.

So much on the go

I have been busy planning and writing and organizing the Second Annual Thomas Jefferson Education Forum. It is going very well. I have 85 people signed up and who knows how many people will come to the door.
We have a great line up this year and I am so excite for it to happen. Anyway thats why I have been busy.
Thanks,
Peggy

Guilty

I am guilty of this one.