ideas

This morning, my longtime friend and houseguest for a week, Jane, shared some of the many ideas she has for crafting a career for herself. Beautiful ideas. She's a renaissance soul, like me, and has a vision for a career that is vibrant, textured, multi-directional, challenging and fullfilling. She's the kind of woman who takes her ideas and runs with them, bravely. She's an artist, a designer, a historian, a theologian, a teacher, a preacher, a pastor, a wordsmith. Her ideas take her places.

This afternoon, I went to a business networking lunch to support an entrepreneur friend of mine, Nancy, who was giving a talk about her business, Your Money By Design. In her talk she made note of the great satisfaction she finds in knowing her work can make a difference in the lives of her clients. She offers information, support, and practical products that help people make sense of their often complicated relationships with money. I reminded her of the coffee date we had several years ago when she first started talking about the idea that has become Your Money By Design. Her ideas have taken her places, too.

My ideas have taken me from a degree in French Literature and Economics to work as a political assistant to theological studies to bookstore management to doula care and breastfeeding counselling to photography and writing and artist-in-residence work. Some might say that's a bit of a crazy path, but I call it my "career mosaic" and I love how it all fits together, how one thing led to another. I'd like to think that if you could watch it unfold in time-lapse photography, it would look like a beautiful, spontaneous chain reaction. I wonder what's next...