1/19/2019 0 Comments Make it HappenI have an amazing friend who goes through life expecting that what she wants to happen will happen. For the most part it does. School, family, career, you name it; things fall into place to fit the way she wants them too. But it's not wave your wand say a magic word in quasi latin and poof there it is* magic. It takes hustle and planning and work. Sometimes it takes re-adjusting what she wants to fit in with things beyond her control because life often throws us a curve ball here and there to keep us on our toes. She makes it happen. She's magic and I'm forever grateful to have her in my life. Last year when there were a lot of "what ifs" and scary changes being juggled up in the air, I decided that I was going to take a page from her book. I looked, really really looked at what was going on with my career, my art and my family and decided what was important to me, what I wanted to make happen. Then I took up the Mantra; "It's going to all fall into place". Then I started to work for it. I updated my resume**. I researched the options of whereI could do what I love, looked up who to contact at these places and went to work. Things started to fall into place, mostly because of quantum.*** I hustled, I planned and I got to work, with a little help from my friends and family, because noone is an island. With all of that in place, oppurtunities started to present themselves. I took on a temporary teaching gig at Place Des Arts in Coquitlam. I began talks with the Pacific Autism Family Network about a teaching opportunity in a new program (JET) for adults with special needs and I started to hear back from some of the places I'd applied. It's not been super smooth sailing. there have been long periods of waiting, and adjustments and re-adjusting because of those life thrown curve balls. I've kept my mantra going. The thoughts we put out have energy, even if that energy only affects our own point of view. So I'm teaching one day a week so far with the JET program at PAFN with the option to add more days as the program grows. I'm doing an artist in residence two day workshop at a school in West Vancouver, I'm joining the Shadbold Centre in Burnaby to teach in my community for after school programs. I'm offering mini term sessions at Muckabout Gift Gallery and I'm booked for Spring Break camps and Summer Programing at Place Des Arts in Coquitlam. All these activities will be updated in Classes and workshops on this site as registration becomes available. And with all that I'm still hustling because you have to put the work in to make it happen. *Sometimes there's a little bit of that, because who doesn't enjoy a little magic in their life right? ** note to self, keep that sucker updated as you go from now on. trying to remember where and when I taught specific workshops and classes, showed art and volunteered after x number of years teaching, volunteering, and showing art is exhausting. *** I'm a full on believer in quantum.
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