It’s been a month since we watched the World Trade Center fall. I’ve struggled so much with what to say about it , that now it seems redundant to do a whole essay on it. So I won’t. I have a couple of things to say, but I’ll just use that as a preface to some other stuff that I’ve been working on.
As the Constant Readers know, I’ve been in the middle of some life changes since before the attacks. When I got the call from my mother on Tuesday morning and I saw the towers crumble to dust with all those people inside, I felt a shift in my mind, my body and my spirit. Right then I knew that I was no longer going to be an apathetic American nor was I going to let my life continue on its undirected path.
After a week of crying and feeling totally helpless, I finally got on an even keel again and I started reading about the things going on in the government in relation to the terrorists attacks and I got severely addicted to Metafilter.com. Lots of different people log on to mefi and it gave me some perspectives that I otherwise wouldn’t have had. For instance, a guy who goes by JISH did a really documentation of images [that no longer is up, sadly – ed.] and quotes from Tuesday, September 11 and I wouldn’t have seen it if not for a random mefi link. I also had CNN and ABCnews on all the time. I tried a couple of other news sources, but I felt they were too preachy (hello, FOX!). That part of it has calmed somewhat, but now that we are finally bombing Afghanistan, the news is on most of the time in my home. So, I am now an involved American and I will definitely use my votes and my pull as a voter to keep politicians in check. I hope everyone else will do the same.
I am still not pursuing any Mac work or web work, but I’m not turning it down, either. I have put out about a dozen retail applications and I hope to have a retail job by the end of the week. It’s not what I want to do forever, but it’s something that I have 10 years experience doing and it will help pay the bills that are pushing our finances to the edge. I accepted a new Mac client today. It’s a very small gig, and I need the money, so I’m gonna do it. But I won’t like it.
I’ve let the California dream go for now. When it’s time, I’ll know. It is not productive for me to pine about moving when it’s obviously not going to happen soon. I suppose I still have stuff to accomplish here. I think it could be that I need to get into herbalist activities, and the American Herbalist Guild is located here in GA, so perhaps that’s why I’m still here. In that vein of thought, I found out that the AHG is having a seminar next month in Helen, GA and I plan to attend the one day intensive. We’ll see where that leads.
In addition to the herbalist and aromatherapy stuff that I can do, I also got a hint that perhaps I should revive my online store. I guy called me about Cedant, my host to whom I gave a testimonial, and he is a web marketer. He was asking about raw logs for sites at Cedant and in the course of me looking that up for him, we started talking about online commerce. He said that using GoTo.com’s (now Overture.com – A) pay per click program is the best way to drive hits to your site besides having specific META tags on every page. That rang a huge bell with me, since a friend of mine who has an online store (The Blessed Bee) was telling me just a couple of months ago about how great GoTo has been for her business. So, I have been looking up various stores that would be my competition as well as using GoTo’s tools to look up how things are listed and I think I really could have a chance with a specialty shop. Do you think that yet another shop that sells pagan, witchy, Indian, jewelry, oils, incense, decor, henna and maybe astrological charts would be successful? Email me your thoughts.
I’ve also been drawn to various inspirational books and ideas lately that have helped me along my path. I’ve read Deepak Chopra’s Seven Spiritual Laws of Success and The Life You Were Born To Live by Dan Millman. Both books been very helpful to me. I also read Disobedience by Jane Hamilton and I really enjoyed it.
So, that’s the State of Angela for now. Later!