I feel so in my element with the events that are occurring in the world today. I have never felt more fully like myself or that I was born at this time for a reason. This is unusual because I usually feel like an anomaly and always day late, dollar short – or just way way ahead of my time, or my time will be never… but right now finally feels like my time. I kind of am waiting for the other shoe to drop (funny origin to the meaning of that, by the way)… but it might not. On September 6, I placed my first ad regarding the Worker Cooperative after having read this article inShareable.Net and then having read tons of other articles. On Sept 12 a group of us had our first meeting. On Sept 17 I was P&L Printing’s Collective Meeting when I heard a 2nd time about Occupy Wallstreet. I had heard about it the night before from someone I met at an Art Opening. I went home and found it online. It made me cry for the 2nd time. The first time was when I read the articles about Worker Cooperatives. I felt like I was coming home to Earth for the first time – suddenly there are more people like me – people waking up and doing something about it.
I knew then that if I wasn’t working on the Worker Cooperative that I would be driving to NYC right now – but I am working on a solution – and that is more important than fighting now. I have been in the war for a long time and God gave me a solution in the Worker Cooperative and it is my job to stay here and organize it and not get thrown off track. If I go out in the street and protest I will lose my footing. As it is – we have alot of work to do and some of us have very little money – we have no income. We have to get something off the ground, fast.
So, as I work on it every day, as I begin to join forces with these people – give Sarah some cards to sell, find some toys in a dumpster and give them to her instead of doing it myself, plan a craft-fair with Gail and Sarah – let Sheri offer me a different way to take credit cards, plan a party to write business plans – plan a Kickstarterevent to raise money for the organizing process in an act of beginning to cooperate, schedule a presentation for a friend of the coop to come in and present an idea for us – as I organize one coop and then the subcoops begin to form…as I try to prayerfully help us to get along, I feel like I have a purpose.
Yes, I have another really great purpose that I was given 20 years ago, but this one is an outgrowth of that one and it is connected to that one profoundly – this one has relevancy now and if I wasn’t solid in my membership in that other cooperative, I could never do this – but I feel so strongly about what is happening outside with the protests today – with the Occupation of the Department of Education meeting last night in New York – and the Oaklanders calling for a General Strike – the timing of what we are doing here at home feels so correct – racing against a shadow – and we are winning – this time we are winning – The Atlantians didn’t make it – the Lemurians didn’t make it – most people don’t even think they existed – other civilizations didn’t come together in time to raise the consciousness of the people before it was too late -maybe we will – or die trying.
