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GoingForwardStories

Tell us how you have applied something you learned at the AYE Conference:

1. As soon as I stand up, I've started speaking. Possibly as soon as I start to speak, whether or not I think I'm in the right position, or ready. Ok, so to everyone else, this might be a Duh, but it was new for me :-)
   
   
2. Freudian slips are ok and they make people laugh. Most of the time, I have no idea what I said that was funny. Sometimes I can plan for the laughs, but most of the time the funny things discover themselves and escape my mouth before my mind knows I've said it.

-- JohannaRothman 2002.12.16

In going forward I think of sculpture. In the begining is a lump. You have mental picture and slowly the thing takes shape. In the process you rethink the image and so on until you have something you're proud of.

My current sculpture is writing. It is beyond lump and in early iteration. I had alway felt a lack in my ability to use words. Time to learn.

I also have shifted my balance of personal and work life. Of course, a very slow economy helped that. I've discovered quiet time! So, in that present I've provided gifts to others (free or charity if you will), and am accepting a new reality of family, since my mother (healthy, smart, feisty and growing up herself at 87) will be coming to live with Robert and me on the Spring. A decision all agreed to. Mother and I spend time talking about things I thought we should have earlier, and of course, now is just fine.

A new sculpture is taking form. Melding pictures and words into "stories". My mother and I are working on a "book" of family stories. Not geneology, but snapshots of people we knew and heard about. Robert and I are working on stories about systems and businesses. I am working on "teaching" stories.

- BeckyWinant 2002.12.18