I would like to express my gratitude to the special people and organizations in my life who have inspired me:
Pat Schneider who became my Creative Writing mentor in December 1981 when on my first phone call to her, she told me to give myself the gift of five minutes a day of writing time. She touched my heart, gained my trust, and twenty-two years later is still the cream of my writing journey.
Amherst Writers and Artists that founded by Pat Schneider was the valuable frame of workshops for my creative writing from 1981 to 1992. In her living room one night a week I changed through the phases of my life putting them on paper in my own voice and spiced with sensory detail. I hear her now asking. "Folks," as she called us to attention reminding us that everyone is a writer.
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Symbiosis Coaching that dovetailing with my previous education and experience has trained me as a Certified Life Coach who explores, encourages, and supports personal growth on the principle that the client always has the perfect solution.
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Alliance of Divine Love where I was nourished and instructed in "the greatest degree of Love" in an Inter-Faith, Multi-Faith Divinity School. “All the joy, peace, and happiness that you have ever felt is Divine love…Its constant drawing of you nearer to itself is called spiritual development.”
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My foundation...Avatar Meher Baba who "devoted His life to awakening humanity to the reality of Divine Love. He declared himself to be the ancient one and God to be the real Self within everyone. His Universal Message begins with the words, 'I have come not to teach but to awaken.'"
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And lastly, my team: my daughter Megan who designed the fresh simplicity of Purely Prema—guiding me for two years toward blog writing, then, inviting my photography. Through a daughter’s vision, I discovered a love for writing seeded in my experiences—blossoming.
And, Rosie Pearson, whose light-touch editing of Purely Prema invites my appreciation with every story that she assures has clarity, focus, and flow—an effort that she describes "as polishing fine china."
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