There are days when I'm sitting here in our office in Dover dealing with the business end of our operations (not my forte...nor a love of mine) that it's easy for me to get bogged down and frustrated with my work.  This, after all, is not why I left teaching almost two years ago...as a former English teacher, paperwork was not part of the vision I had in creating Awareness UNlimited.  But with the decision last summer to transition AU from a sole proprietorship to a not-for-profit corporation, paperwork has become unavoidable.

There are more days, however, when I am reminded of the wonderful gifts I have been given through my work which far outweigh the drugery of the paperwork I complain about.  These gifts are the people I have become connected with over the years of my involvement with awareness and diversity programming.

They are on our Board of Trustees...

They are people I meet through the programming we are involved with...

They are participants in this programming...

They are our members...

They are colleagues...

They are volunteers...

They are people who ask, "What do you actually do at Awareness UNlimited?"...

They are folks who live nearby and folks who live far away...

They are old friends and new friends...

They are family...

They are great joys and constant reminders of what is truly important....

It is my privilege to know you all...and I so look forward to connecting many of you through our continued work at AU and through this new blog where I plan to introduce you to many of these people who touch my life, and many other lives, in such special and profound ways.

Peace,

Deb